Shanxi held a provincial safety deployment meeting on May 30; provincial Party
deputy secretary and governor Lu Dongliang attended. Authorities ordered an
urgent, provincewide special rectification of coal-mine safety risks, insisting
on strict implementation of the province’s “eight hard measures” for mine
safety. The campaign will focus on mines with the most acute risks and adopt a
"zero tolerance" stance to precisely inspect and crack down on concealed working
faces, falsified safety monitoring, illegal private mining beyond layers and
boundaries, unlawful subcontracting, and failures to implement major-disaster
controls. The province pledged full cooperation with the State Council accident
investigation to identify causes and responsibilities of local governments,
industry regulators and enterprises, and to remedy weak safety culture, weak
legal awareness, failures in "key-person" accountability, insufficient
regulatory penetration and lax grassroots inspections.
