Prevent and resolve major risks and strive to create a new situation in mine safety production

As a high-risk industry, mining has always been highly valued by the Party Central Committee and The State Council, and has always been the top priority of safety production work. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stressed the need to coordinate development and safety, adhere to the principle that people come first and life comes first, improve and implement the responsibility system for work safety, strengthen supervision and law enforcement of work safety, and effectively curb major and major safety accidents in mines. This has pointed out the direction for us to do a good job of mine safety production in the new development stage and provided the following.

 We strengthened the investigation and management of major risks and hidden dangers, implemented responsibilities, strengthened basic work, intensified law enforcement, and severely cracked down on violations of laws and regulations. We achieved "three significant reductions" in the number of mine accidents, the number of deaths, and the death rate of coal mines by one million tons. No particularly major mine accidents occurred, and for the first time since the founding of New China, there were no major coal mine gas accidents in the whole year. We accomplished all the goals and tasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan. In 2020, compared with 2015, the number of coal mine accidents and deaths will drop by 65.3 percent and 62.4 percent respectively, the number of major accidents will drop by 40 percent, and the death rate of coal mines per million tons will drop by 64.2 percent. The number of accidents and deaths in non-coal mines decreased by 28.2 percent and 39.2 percent, respectively, and the number of major accidents decreased from 2 to zero.

Although the work of mine safety in recent years has achieved obvious results, but the situation is still complex and severe, major accidents have not been prevented, large accidents occur from time to time, there are also repeated violations of the law and violations of the repeated punishment, the three-year special rectification of production safety action is not solid enough, the implementation of the main responsibility of enterprises is not in place, supervision and supervision efficiency needs to be improved and other problems. It also faces the safety risks brought by unreasonable industrial structure, increasingly serious disasters, tight mining succession, uncertain external environment and insufficient personnel experience and ability. It is necessary to strengthen the sense of danger, adhere to the bottom line thinking, accurately identify changes, scientific response, take the initiative to change, take effective measures to solve, and strive to create a new situation of mine safety production.

2021 is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", and the first year after the formal establishment of the National Mine Safety Administration to fully perform its duties.  In order to prevent and curb major accidents as the goal, to carry out the investigation of production safety as the starting point, in-depth promotion of the three-year special rectification of production safety action, both symptoms and root causes, comprehensive treatment, precise policies, pay close attention to implementation, and strive to achieve the total number of accidents, major accidents, major accidents, coal mine mortality of one million tons "four decline", with outstanding achievements to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party. The key tasks are:

  We should follow the general Secretary's lead, follow the "two supremacists" as the fundamental value, take the realization of "zero death" as the most determined goal, and truly put ensuring the safety of people's lives in the first place. It is necessary to work hard on the rectification of the standard and the table, and take measures from the aspects of system, responsibility, ability, style, etc., so that the rectification will not be relaxed and the purpose will not be relaxed. 

(2) To carry out a comprehensive investigation as an important starting point, deepen the three-year special rectification campaign for mine safety production.  2021 is a concentrated stage, to comprehensively and deeply carry out coal mine safety production investigation, to achieve coal mine self-inspection and self-reform, enterprise internal inspection, regulatory inspection and supervision and law enforcement four 100%; Organize consultations of experts in metal and non-metal underground mines, pay close attention to the advance treatment of major disasters such as coal mine gas and water damage, the storage, management, blasting and hot fire operations of underground mines, winter ore drawing of tailings ponds, flood drainage systems and other key links, and strive to solve deep-level problems. It is necessary to make good use of laws and regulations such as the Amendment to the Criminal Law (XI), Order No. 446 of The State Council, and Order No. 4 of the Ministry of Emergency Management, to hit the pain of serious violations of laws and regulations before the accident, and to stop production and rectify enterprises with major hidden dangers in accordance with the law until they are closed and withdrawn.