East China’s Jiangsu province held a video conference on work safety. Lou Qinjian, secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee, gave important instructions for the conference. Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu, presided over the conference and delivered a speech.
Lou stressed in his instructions that work safety is the bottom line that we must stick to at any time.
In the new year, we must uphold the Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era by adhering to the safety-based development, combining with the characteristic reality of the province’s industrial development, bolstering responsibility system, strengthening technical prevention, improving the system and mechanism, and systematically promoting the work of workplace safety to provide a strong guarantee for Jiangsu’s high quality development.
Wu Zhenglong noted that Jiangsu made unremitting efforts last year to implement the important instructions on work safety made by General Secretary Xi Jinping and the decisions and deployment of the CPC central committee and the State Council.
While progress has been made in improving work safety, frequent tragedies still occur and there are safety hazards which officials should focus more closely on, the governor said.
He called on the province to act in accordance with the Xi Jinping Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era and implement his important thinking on workplace safety.
In a written instruction to the national conference on workplace safety, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for better prevention of extremely severe workplace accidents despite improvements that have been made.
China saw less workplace accidents and related deaths last year, as the government stepped up work safety inspections.
In the first eleven months of last year, the number of workplace accidents in China plunged 26.9 percent year on year, while the death toll in those accidents dropped 20.6 percent, according to the State Administration of Work Safety.
In 2018, more should be done on accountability and oversight. More preventive efforts are needed in key industries.
A nationwide workplace safety check from July to November last year involved more on-site inspections and tougher punishments.
"Extremely severe" refers to accidents that either cause more than 30 deaths, leave more than 100 severely injured or result in more than 100 million yuan (about 15 million U.S. dollars) in direct economic losses.
China plans to set 362 workplace standards to improve safety in 12 sectors, such as coal mining and hazardous chemicals, from 2016 to 2020.
(Source:Jiangsu International Channel)
