Accidents happen in non-State enterprises (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-04-11 09:00
The non-State sector in China is responsible for
65 percent of the country's industrial and mining accidents and 66 percent of
the fatalities last year, the national safety watchdog said Saturday.
Wang Xianzheng, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said
that work safety problems in non-public enterprises have become a major issue
though they have made great contributionto the rapid growth of the national
economy.
Statistics show that 70 percent of serious accidents since 2001 took place in
small non-state enterprises. In 2003, the number of accidents and of fatalities
in non-public industrial and mining enterprises rose by 23 percent and 21
percent respectively from the previous year.
An earlier report indicated that tragedies in these caused 17,315 deaths last
year, up 16 percent on a yearly basis.
Wang, who addressed a national conference on safety work of non-State
enterprises, said low production level and poor management and training of
employees are the major causes of the accidents.
The administration has closed a large number of small mines or plants that
either operated without license or failed to meet safety standards, established
a license system for production safety, and formulated a series of policies on
compulsory expense in production safety and increase in compensation for
industrial casualties and risk mortgage.
