China News Service, Hangzhou, October 5 (Guo Qiyu) It is the National Day holiday. Fresh and challenging Internet celebrity tourism sports such as rock climbing, rafting, hot air ballooning, outdoor swimming, and glass water slides have become popular choices for many citizens and tourists to check in during the holiday.
Thrilling rides bring unique experiences to tourists, but they also pose safety risks. For example, some business units have incomplete licenses, aging recreational facilities and irregular daily management.
In response, the Procuratorate of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province incorporated the safety of high-risk tourism and sports projects into public interest litigation and people's livelihood matters, used digital empowerment to accurately eliminate risks, coordinated the performance of duties in a closed-loop rectification, and used long-term mechanisms to prevent and control at the source to build a solid safety barrier.
The prosecutor returned to inspect the rock climbing project. Photo courtesy of Hangzhou People’s Procuratorate
A clue reveals the blind spots in industry supervision
Previously, the People's Procuratorate of Linping District, Hangzhou City found that the climbing height of a shopping mall rock climbing project exceeded the standard and the safety rope was loose, posing safety risks. After on-site inspections, qualification verification, benchmarking against national technical standards, and consultation with industry experts, the procuratorial organs found that the site was operating without a license, was not equipped with professional technical personnel, had unclear safety warning signs, and did not regularly inspect the facilities.
After research and judgment, the Hangzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate believed that this case was not an isolated case, and took this as an opportunity to list "Escorting Safe Travels - Safety Supervision of High-Risk Tourism and Sports Industry" as an annual public interest litigation and people's livelihood practical project, unifying the filing standards, issuing special work guidelines, and the city's procuratorial organs simultaneously carried out special supervision.
In view of the pain points of high-risk tourist sports projects such as scattered distribution, strong concealment, and blind spots in traditional supervision, the Hangzhou Procuratorate screened through digital means and went to the site to verify one by one, and a number of hidden safety issues "surfaced."
Some businesses operate without licenses or have expired business licenses, the hardware of some rock climbing venues does not meet national standards, swimming venues are insufficiently equipped with lifeguards and safety facilities, equipment for rafting, hot air ballooning and other outdoor projects do not have certification, first-aid equipment is missing, and first-aid drugs are expired... The procuratorial organs have brought scattered and hidden industry risks into the field of supervision through comprehensive inspections.
Multiple parties work together in a closed loop to promote problem rectification
In order to effectively promote the rectification of problems and protect public safety, the procuratorial organs actively connect with administrative departments, gather the joint efforts of multiple supervision parties, and build a complete closed loop of clue handling, joint rectification, and follow-up inspection.
As a key area for special supervision, the Linping District People's Procuratorate promoted the establishment of a special rectification action team to carry out drag-net inspections, interviewed more than 40 business entities, supervised the rectification of more than 50 hidden dangers, pushed 7 business entities to complete the approval procedures, standardized 8 outsourcing subcontracting agreements for swimming venues, and included emerging entertainment projects such as escape rooms and scripted movies into the scope of inspection.
At the same time, procuratorial organs across Hangzhou have implemented precise supervision based on the characteristics of local businesses, promoted the application and renewal of operating licenses for swimming venues, and equipped with safety facilities such as lifesaving observation decks and emergency lighting. They have issued procuratorial recommendations for high-risk mountain tourism projects such as rafting, hot air ballooning, and paragliding, and all hidden dangers have been rectified in a closed-loop manner. Related illegal enterprises have been filed and punished, and safety training and emergency drills have been carried out in conjunction with the Red Cross.
Rectification is not a matter of "one supervision and all." In order to prevent the problem from resurfacing, the procuratorial organs have carried out comprehensive rectification and "look back", inviting industry experts, public welfare volunteers, etc. to conduct on-site re-inspections of key locations, verifying equipment, qualifications, and staffing one by one to ensure that hidden dangers are eliminated and will not rebound.
Use cases to promote treatment "One case will lead to one area being treated"
Handling a case is not just about "the case is closed", but also to achieve the effect of "handling a case, managing an area, and standardizing an area." To this end, the procuratorial organs promote standardization through rectification, make up for the shortcomings of the supervision system, and promote the transformation of safety governance from "post-incident relief" to "pre-emptive prevention."
Driven by individual cases, the Linping District People's Procuratorate and relevant departments signed the "Information Sharing Mechanism for High-Risk Sports Projects" to clarify the path for clue transfer, information exchange, and resource sharing, break the data barriers between departments, and achieve normalized and dynamic supervision of high-risk sports projects.
At the same time, many places in Hangzhou have established a supervision system of "daily inspections + special inspections + looking back on hidden dangers" to refine full-process standards such as regular equipment inspections and emergency incident handling, and promote the upgrading of safety governance from single-point rectification to all-area prevention and control.
"The National Day holiday is the peak time for travel, and industry safety requires both regulatory constraints and the improvement of safety awareness in the whole society." The head of the Public Interest Litigation Procuratorial Department of the Hangzhou Municipal People's Procuratorate said that the procuratorial agency coordinated various administrative departments to carry out science popularization for business entities and tourists. More than 2,000 safety brochures have been distributed to promote safety awareness among the people.
