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Profound lessons must be learned from Tianjin blasts: Chinese leaders

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2015-08-16 07:39Xinhua Editor: Yao Lan

习近平就切实做好安全生产工作作出重要指示

近一个时期以来,全国多个地区发生重特大安全生产事故,特别是天津港“8·12”瑞海公司危险品仓库特别重大火灾爆炸事故,造成重大人员伤亡和财产损失。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席习近平对切实做好安全生产工作高度重视,8月15日再次作出重要指示。

Chinese leaders on Saturday urged authorities to learn from the "extremely profound" lessons paid for with blood as death toll from massive warehouse explosions in Tianjin rose to 104.[Special coverage]

In a written instruction, President Xi Jinping said that the Tianjin blasts and a string of serious accidents recently exposed severe problems in the work safety sector, and authorities must always keep "safe development" and "people's interest first" in mind to avoid such accidents.

He demands a better emergency response mechanism, greater implementation of work safety regulations, and careful checks of all possible safety risks, to achieve "substantial improvement" in work safety.

The accountability system must be put into practice earnestly in order to prevent dereliction of duty, he added.

Premier Li Keqiang urged authorities to take forceful and effective measures to rectify the weak link so as to formulate a long-term mechanism to avoid the repetition of accidents.

The State Council on Saturday called a national tele-conference to lay out work on a national safety inspection that will target industries related with dangerous chemicals, explosives, fireworks, elevators, non-coal mines, public transport and ports.

The repeated emphasis on safety followed the massive explosions at a warehouse storing dangerous chemicals in north China's Tianjin City on Wednesday night, killing at least 104 people, and injuring more than 720.

The warehouse was owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Ltd., a storage and distribution center for containers of dangerous goods.

The State Council Work Safety Commission on Friday said the blasts revealed a lack of safety awareness among businesses, lax implementation of safety regulations, irregular practices among workers and weak emergency responses to incidents.

  

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