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The management of emergencies, no matter resulting from natural or man-made disasters, requires enough information as well as knowledge. Knowledge management is an important foundation and support for integrating emergency department, optimizing the distribution of emergency resources, sharing emergency information and improving the level of emergency decisions. In order to support the decision-makers to improve the management of the disaster emergencies, knowledge system is good candidates. Firstly, this paper analyzes the causes of the needs of knowledge management and proposes the concept of knowledge system of emergency management (KSEM). Then, according to system engineering, the paper presents the architecture of KSEM which included three subsystems: knowledge subsystem, knowledge body subsystem and material carrier subsystem. Lastly the paper analyzes the relationship between three subsystems. Research on the architecture of KSEM may help emergency management departments systematically managed knowledge and provide the important theoretical basis for developing information technologies. The authors hope the performance of emergency management would be improved in the country and the losses caused by emergencies like disasters would be reduced to a lower degree.