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- State Council issues circular on safe production
Date: 3-Sep-2007 Sources: (People's Daily)
China's State Council reiterated its call for intensified efforts to ensure safe production to prevent fatal accidents in a circular released on Friday.
Despite a decline in the total number of accidents since the year's beginning, the situation of safe production is still grim, with frequent occurrence of big accidents in the areas of coal mining, metallurgy, construction and transport, the circular said.
Local governments and authorities are required to appoint senior officials to be responsible for safe production and to lead inspections into key areas and enterprises.
The circular told local governments to keep close watch on climate changes and establish effective warning systems to forecast natural disasters.
'Local governments should carry out regular inspections to find hidden trouble in work places and punish severely illegal production,' the circular said.
The circular required local governments to intensify traffic controls and launch safety inspections in schools before the autumn semester.
Local authorities should encourage people to report illegal production activities, severely punish people who are held responsible for accidents and publicize the results of investigations in time.
Governments at all levels are required to report to the State Council the results of their implementation of the circular before Sept. 20, according to the circular.
Several fatal mass accidents happened in August, including a bridge collapse in central China's Hunan Province which killed 64 people.
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