On the afternoon of July 31st, Huaihua holds a city-wide video and telephone conference on work safety and an expanded meeting of the Huaihua Municipal Safety Committee. (Photo by Yang Zhiwei/Huaihua Daily)
On the afternoon of July 31st, a city-wide video and telephone conference on work safety and the expanded meeting of the Huaihua Municipal Safety Committee were held. Municipal Party Secretary Xu Zhongjian attended and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements on work safety, conscientiously implement the deployment and requirements of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and the Provincial Government of Hunan, always put people, life, and safety first, strictly enforce work safety responsibilities, firmly uphold the bottom line of work safety and fully safeguard the safety of public life and property. He Zunqing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Huaihua Municipal Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Commission, presided over the meeting. Li Wanqian, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, and Niu Shunsheng, Chairman of the Huaihua Municipal CPPCC, attended the meeting.
At the meeting, a warning and educational film on safety precautions for the second quarter and an undercover media report were shown. The city's safety precautions were reported, and the Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Municipal Education Bureau, and Municipal Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television, and Sports Bureau made respective statements.
Xu Zhongjian emphasized that all departments at all levels in the city must deeply learn from the lessons of the accident, maintain a high level of safety awareness, strengthen a sense of responsibility to "constantly cautious about the situation”, cultivate a bottom-line and extremity thinking, overcome complacency and the mentality of taking chances, and promptly and effectively implement safety precautions to resolutely prevent all types of accidents and ensure a sustained, stable, and positive development in the city's production safety situation.
Xu Zhongjian emphasized the importance of focusing on key tasks, especially flood prevention and drought relief. While ensuring safety during the flood season, precise allocation of drought-relief water sources should be implemented to ensure water supply for production and daily life of the people. Forest fire prevention and control should be strengthened, monitoring and early warning systems should be improved, and various fire prevention and control measures should be implemented. Chikungunya fever prevention and control should be strengthened to protect the health and safety of the people. We must strictly prevent and control risks in key areas, focusing on identifying and rectifying hidden dangers in key sectors such as transportation, construction, non-coal mining, hazardous chemicals, fireworks, firefighting, industry and trade, cultural tourism, and energy safety. We must carry out in-depth special operations to combat illegal activities and violations, and improve and implement a comprehensive safety supervision mechanism. We must closely monitor key periods, focusing on summer vacation travel safety and student drowning prevention, and ensuring the safety of all major events. We must address shortcomings and weaknesses, focusing on addressing issues such as water transportation safety supervision, county and township road safety facilities, fire protection infrastructure, non-motor vehicle management, and the management of safety hazards associated with slope-cutting construction. We must adhere to a combination of human, technical, and physical defense to continuously improve inherent safety standards.
Xu Zhongjian emphasized the need to strictly implement the system that demands "the Party and the government sharing responsibility, dual responsibilities for one position, joint management, and accountability for dereliction of duty", effectively assigning responsibility for production safety to the main leaders, supervisors, and staff of all departments, projects, and enterprises, and implementing safety precautions at work sites, risk points, and safety facility locations. We must strengthen safety supervision and proactively implement accountability measures, Xu said, adding that those who fail to adequately identify and address safety risks and hidden dangers must be held accountable, and that we must strengthen safety publicity and education, continuously elevate public safety awareness, and build a solid people's defense line for safe production.
Municipal leaders Peng Xiandan, Li Weilin, Yang Zhihua, Yin Peiguo, Zou Xingwang, and Zheng Xiaohu were in attendance.
(Translated by Le Guobin)