The number of various types of accidents in Jiangxi has dropped by 31% in the past three years. Emergency management reform has built a solid "safety floor"

China News Service, Nanchang, November 11 (Zhu Ying) "Compared with the same period in the previous three years, the number of various accidents and deaths in Jiangxi Province have dropped by 31% and 21% respectively; the disaster-stricken population and direct economic losses have dropped by 58% and 55% respectively." On the 11th, Xu Weiming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Jiangxi Provincial Emergency Management Department, revealed at a press conference.

On the same day, a press conference on Jiangxi Province’s emergency management reform, innovation and high-quality development was held in Nanchang. Xu Weiming introduced that in the past three years, Jiangxi has focused on the "two goals" of continuous reduction of production safety accidents and continuous reduction of natural disaster losses, and promoted "six actions" of improving intrinsic safety, risk classification management and control, tackling hidden dangers, improving supervision and law enforcement, strengthening the foundation of emergency rescue, and optimizing investigation and evaluation.

Among them, in the field of high-risk industries, Jiangxi has promoted the closure of 17 coal mines with an annual output of less than 90,000 tons, completed the closure and sale of 32 tailings ponds, in-depth promotion of the construction of concentrated areas for the transformation and upgrading of fireworks and firecrackers, and urged all 31 chemical industry parks to reach C-level and above standards. 1,386 companies in high-risk industries have completed the automation and intelligent transformation of high-risk process equipment.

In the field of public safety, Jiangxi has completed 6,392 kilometers of highway safety and life protection projects, renovated 745 dangerous bridges, renovated 8,221 kilometers of aging gas pipelines, updated 4,424 old residential elevators, benefiting nearly 100,000 residents, and promoted 231,000 independent smoke and fire detection alarms, 103,000 "one-button alarm" devices, and 19,400 simple sprinkler systems.

In the field of disaster prevention and control, Jiangxi has coordinated and promoted the construction of key natural disaster prevention and control projects. The province's polders with an area of ​​more than 10,000 acres have fully met the planned flood control standards. It has completed the task of removing and reinforcing 1,664 dangerous reservoirs ahead of schedule, completed 705 geological disaster prevention and control projects, and actively promoted comprehensive disaster prevention capacity building projects. The province's safe development has a stronger foundation.

In addition, in the past three years, Jiangxi has promoted the transformation of the governance model to preventive measures. In terms of monitoring and early warning, Jiangxi's 200 enterprises with major hazardous chemicals sources, 248 non-coal mines, 431 fireworks and firecracker enterprises, 195 dust explosion-related and steel and aluminum processing enterprises are connected to the safety risk monitoring and early warning system. Monitoring and early warning systems in the fields of transportation, gas, fire protection, meteorology, hydrology, natural resources, forestry and other fields are constantly improving, and the integrated air, space and ground monitoring and early warning network is getting denser.

"In the next step, we will adhere to the principle of putting people first and life first, unswervingly deepen the reform, and in-depth promote the implementation of the '2653' action plan for high-quality development of emergency management, so as to build a solid safety floor and safeguard the bottom line of safety for writing a chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Jiangxi." Xu Weiming said.