2024-01-05 08:51:22
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 5 Title: Effective prevention and control, all-out response to strengthen the foundation—A perspective on my country’s emergency management work in 2023
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ye Haoming and Yang Chi
Emergency management is an important guarantee for economic and social development. What results will my country’s emergency management achieve in 2023? How is the construction of emergency management departments and fire rescue teams? How to make every effort to do a good job in emergency management in 2024? At the recently held National Emergency Management Work Conference, the person in charge of the Emergency Management Department responded.
Effectively prevent and control major safety risks
In 2023, faced with the severe challenge of a significant increase in the risk of various disaster accidents, emergency management departments and fire rescue teams performed their duties with a sense of responsibility of “always worrying” and maintained the overall stability of the national safety production and disaster prevention, reduction and relief situation.
Launched the 2023 National Major Hidden Hazards Investigation and Rectification Action, with a total of 394,000 major accident hazards investigated; organized the 2023 provincial government safety production and fire protection work assessment inspections, and the State Council Safety Committee member unit safety production work assessment; issued the Notice on Further Strengthening Mine Safety Opinions on production work, formulating hard measures to prevent and contain major production safety accidents in the mining field, revising safety regulations for limited space operations in industrial and trade enterprises… One following another “long-toothed” safety management practical measures are frequently issued, and we must resolutely break them Generalized, “big Hulong” extensive old ideas and methods.
The central government is deploying and local governments are implementing it.
The Beijing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau uses various methods such as institutional credit risk assessment, hierarchical and classified supervision and law enforcement to strengthen supervision and guidance of safety evaluation and testing institutions, promote safety evaluation institutions to play an active role in escorting safety production work, and contribute to the capital’s economic and social safety and high quality develop;
The Emergency Management Department of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region takes advantage of the unique advantages of being connected by land and sea with ASEAN countries to continuously deepen international emergency management cooperation between the two parties in the fields of education and training, talent training, monitoring and early warning, and joint response, and jointly promote bilateral emergency management shared cooperation, emergency response Complementary development of industries and collaborative improvement of emergency response capabilities…
“In the past year, in response to the concentrated emergence of some long-term hidden production safety risks following the epidemic prevention and control has stabilized, as well as the challenges brought by the increasing number and intensity of extreme disaster weather, the emergency management system has placed prevention in a more prominent position and played a more prominent role. The functional role of relevant discussion and coordination agencies is to promote the transformation of the public security governance model to pre-emptive prevention and effectively prevent and control major safety risks.” said the person in charge of the Emergency Management Department.
Fully respond to various disasters and accidents
At 23:59 on December 18, 2023, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, with a focal depth of 10 kilometers. Half an hour following the earthquake occurred, the Jishishan County Fire Rescue Brigade in Linxia Prefecture became the first rescue force to arrive, and successfully transferred and rescued 9 trapped people in the early morning of the 19th.
This is just a microcosm of the work of our country’s emergency management departments and fire rescue teams in the past year——
In the face of Typhoon “Dusuri” moving northward, catastrophic floods in the Haihe River Basin, and extreme rainstorms and floods in parts of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and Northeastern regions, early warnings were issued to relevant provinces in advance, intensive consultations were conducted, and the problem of the Mentougou siege in Beijing was successfully resolved. Major emergency response tasks such as train rescue and emergency protection of the left embankment of Baigou River in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province;
Coordinated the national comprehensive fire rescue team to successfully deal with forest fires such as Chayu in Tibet and lightning fires that broke out in a short period of time in Inner Mongolia. The number of forest and grassland fires, the area of damaged forests, and the number of casualties due to disasters have reached the lowest level since the founding of the People’s Republic of China;
Promptly handle major accidents such as the collapse of the Alxa League coal mine in Inner Mongolia, the fire at Beijing Changfeng Hospital, the gas explosion at the Yinchuan barbecue restaurant in Ningxia, and the fire at the Yongju coal mine in Luliang, Shanxi, etc., speed up accident investigations, supervise the handling of major accidents and typical accidents, and escalate investigations… …
When a disaster strikes, it is the mission and responsibility of the emergency management department and the fire rescue team to fully respond to the disaster and protect people’s lives and property. In the past year, the Ministry of Emergency Management focused on building a national comprehensive fire rescue team, and the National Fire Rescue Bureau was established; a batch of new special equipment was installed to strengthen actual combat training; 15 new national safety production professional rescue teams were built, bringing the total to 113; 11 new engineering rescue professional teams including new water projects…
“Focusing on the need to fight early and attack the small ones and to overcome difficulties and win actual combat, we have coordinated and promoted the construction of the emergency rescue force system, and the ability to respond to emergencies, dangerous and severe disasters has been significantly enhanced.” said the person in charge of the Emergency Management Department.
Make every effort to do a good job in emergency management in the new year
2024 is the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is a critical year for achieving the goals and tasks of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. Doing a good job in emergency management requires heavy responsibilities and arduous tasks.
Focusing on production safety, disaster prevention, reduction and relief, emergency response capabilities, management systems, etc., the meeting also made arrangements for emergency management work in 2024.
In terms of production safety, the meeting proposed that we should comprehensively carry out a three-year campaign to address the root causes of production safety, make every effort to prevent major risks in key areas such as mining, hazardous chemicals, firefighting, industry and trade, and “strictly prevent accidents involving mass deaths and injuries”;
In terms of disaster prevention, reduction, and relief, the meeting proposed that we should implement natural disaster emergency response capacity improvement projects such as early warning and command projects, rescue capability projects, and grassroots disaster prevention projects, and improve the disaster prevention, reduction, and relief mechanisms to “effectively serve the country’s major needs”;
In terms of emergency response capabilities, the meeting proposed the need to build and strengthen the emergency command system at all levels, deepen the integration and reform of fire rescue teams, create a comprehensive rescue force, and “make every effort to protect the safety of people’s lives and property”;
In terms of management system, the meeting proposed that we should vigorously improve grassroots emergency management capabilities, strengthen the support and guarantee of legal science and technology talents, and improve the emergency management system for the participation of the whole society.
“Emergency management is related to the safety of people’s lives and property and social stability. We must firmly follow the path of emergency management with Chinese characteristics in the new era and promote the steady and long-term development of emergency management.” said the person in charge of the Emergency Management Department.
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