Chinese President Hu Jintao reiterated on Monday that close
attention and concrete efforts are needed to ensure safe
production, and officials in charge should always "put people
first."
In a meeting of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee Political Bureau held on March 27, Hu said that safe
production is of great importance to realize, protect and develop
the fundamental interests of the people, and to build a harmonious
society.
Hu, together with other senior party officials, was given a
lecture on foreign production administration by well-known Chinese
scholars and discussed the issue at the meeting.
Hu, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said
safe production not only has a direct impact on people's lives and
property safety, but also on social stability and the reform and
opening-up process. The Party has taken the concept of safe
production as part of the development strategy of China's
modernization.
"To highlight safe production is also a step forward in
implementing the scientific concept of development," Hu said,
adding the Party and government have done a lot to ensure safe
production in the long term.
He stressed that economic and social progress could not be
achieved at the price of people's lives or the destruction of
environment. Serious accidents have caused great harm to the
people, which should be well remembered as lessons written in
blood.
Hu said that to ensure safe production, people should stay
alert, abide by working rules, establish technical support, and
carry out careful supervision. Those who break the rules or have
caused accidents should be severely punished.
He called on production units to fully abide by production
rules, and local governments to shoulder the responsibility as
supervisors. Chinese lawmakers should improve laws and regulations,
and the whole society should be more aware of safe production.
Regular inspections should be made in certain professions and
trades, and more investment should be put in preventing unsafe
production.?
(Xinhua News Agency March 29, 2006)