The reporter learned from the National Emergency Management Work Conference held on the 7th that the number of production safety accidents and deaths in the country in 2020 decreased by 15.5% and 8.3% year-on-year respectively. No particularly serious accidents occurred. The safety production situation in most regions and industries continues to improve. ; Compared with the average of the past five years, the number of people who died and was missing due to disasters across the country has dropped by 43%. The number of deaths and missing from natural disasters, the number of production safety accidents and deaths, and the number of major accidents and deaths are the lowest in history since the founding of New China.
In 2020, the Emergency Management Department organized a total of 254 emergency consultations, initiated 61 emergency responses, and dispatched 91 working groups to the front line to fully respond to various disasters and accidents. Carrying out special actions to control wild fire sources and combat illegal fire use, and promote special rectification of hidden fire hazards in transmission and distribution lines. The number of forest fires and the area of damaged forests decreased by 50.3% and 38.1% respectively year-on-year.
The national comprehensive fire rescue team has accelerated the transformation and upgrading, and newly established 461 earthquake disaster rescue teams; the construction of the national aviation emergency rescue system has continued to advance, and the civil aviation and other relevant parties have improved the aviation emergency linkage guarantee mechanism; Major hazardous sources of chemicals, coal mines and third-class tailings ponds are fully monitored online, and the emergency management capability system is accelerated.
"At present, the foundation of production safety and disaster prevention and relief in my country is still weak, the situation is complex and severe, and the status quo of a large number of hidden accidents has not been fundamentally changed." The relevant person in charge of the emergency management department said that the next step is to put more prominent capacity building. Position, improve risk monitoring and early warning capabilities, improve the actual combat capabilities of rescue teams, vigorously strengthen the construction of the aviation fire emergency rescue system, and enhance the capability of emergency supplies.
Article source "People's Daily"