Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu and director of the Provincial Workplace Safety Committee, presided over a workplace safety meeting on Tuesday to make arrangement for the in-depth study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on workplace safety, implement the spirit of the national workplace safety teleconference, and make research on the tasks to be fulfilled this year.
Wu Zhenglong pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions and important instructions on strengthening the work of workplace safety from the height of the development of the party and the country, and the happiness of the people, which has provided the fundamental guideline for workplace safety.
He urged the workplace safety authorities at all levels to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, uphold the "four consciousnesses" and safeguard the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as the core so as to safeguard the safety of life and property and social stability of the people.
Wu Zhenglong pointed out that in the face of the severe and complicated situation and heavy tasks of the province's workplace safety, government departments at all levels must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, establish the people-centered development thinking, systematically promote the construction of a safe production system, plan and promote the integration of safety production and emergency management, disaster prevention and mitigation, and strive to create a new situation of safe production in Jiangsu in a new era.
Wu Zhenglong emphasized that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China and also a crucial year for building a well-off society at a high level, making it all the more important to do a good job in implementing and promoting workplace safety.
On the basis of comprehensive investigation and rectification, we must persist in taking major risks of prevention and control and curbing serious accidents as the top priority, highlighting the implementation of safety production responsibility, forestalling and defusing major safety risks, and lay a solid foundation of safety production.
Three documents concerning workplace safety were scrutinized and approved at the meeting.
Present at the meeting were vice Governor Fei Gaoyun and Chen Jiangang, secretary general of the provincial government.
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:ourjiangsu.com)