Today, an official conclusion has been reached on the catastrophic accident at Fengcheng Power Plant in Jiangxi Province.
The investigation team of the State Council found out that the construction unit Hebei Yineng Yanta Engineering Co., Ltd. had chaotic management on the construction site, failed to formulate the management control measures for formwork removal as required, and lost control over the management of formwork removal process.
On November 24, 2016, a particularly serious accident occurred in the third phase expansion project of Jiangxi Fengcheng Power Plant, which caused 73 deaths and 2 injuries, and the direct economic loss was 101.972 million yuan.
The investigation team found that in addition to the construction unit, the local government and relevant regulatory authorities all had oversight in the accident.
Therefore, the State Council instructed the Jiangxi provincial government to make an in-depth inspection of the State Council.
At the same time, Li Yihuang, the vice governor in charge of production safety, failed to effectively guide and urge relevant departments and provincial enterprises to implement the responsibility for production safety due to his poor leadership in implementing the relevant national policies, laws and regulations on production safety, and he was informed according to the law and discipline.
More than that, another 47 responsible personnel were given disciplinary action, admonishing conversation, notification, criticism and education according to law and discipline. The judicial organs have taken criminal compulsory measures against 31 responsible persons according to law.
In the past two years, there have been many inspections by local governments to the central government. Then, under what circumstances will local governments be required to make inspections to the central government?
First, the implementation of the central policy is not effective, and even the yin obeys the yang.
The most typical case is the ecological environment problem of Qilian Mountain National Nature Reserve this year. The Central Office and the State Council jointly notified the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government to make an in-depth inspection to the CPC Central Committee. At that time, the main responsible comrades of the provincial party Committee and the provincial government seriously reflected and learned lessons.
The circular clearly pointed out that Gansu’s implementation of the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee is not firm and thorough. The Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government did not deeply understand the extreme importance of ecological environment protection in Qilian Mountain from a political and overall perspective, and did not really grasp the real management and grasp it to the end in their work.
Second, under normal circumstances, local governments will be required to make inspections in case of extraordinarily serious production safety accidents.
How to define the extraordinarily serious production safety accident? According to the Regulations on Reporting, Investigation and Handling of Production Safety Accidents, which came into effect in June 2007, accidents that caused more than 30 deaths, or more than 100 serious injuries, or direct economic losses of more than 100 million yuan were particularly serious accidents.
Therefore, regardless of the number of deaths or economic losses, the accident of Fengcheng Power Plant in Jiangxi Province is a serious production safety accident.
Prior to this, the Tianjin Port explosion, "11• 22 "Qingdao oil pipeline explosion, Shanxi Hongdong" 12• 5 "mine disaster, etc., the local provincial governments are required to make an inspection to the State Council.
Third, because of the serious traffic accidents, local governments need to check with the central authorities.
In July 2012, the State Council issued "Opinions on Strengthening Road Traffic Safety", proposing that the provincial people’s government should make a written inspection to the State Council in case of particularly serious road traffic accidents or three or more major road traffic accidents within one year.
In 2014, an explosion accident of hazardous chemicals occurred on Jinji Expressway, resulting in 40 deaths, 12 injuries, and 42 vehicles burned, resulting in a direct economic loss of 81.97 million yuan. At that time, Shanxi Provincial People’s Government was instructed to make an in-depth inspection to the State Council.
Fourth, public events with extremely bad social impact have greatly damaged the image of the party and the government.
The most typical case in this respect is the incident of Shanxi Black Brick Kiln in that year. In 2007, Shanxi Province was exposed many incidents in which the owners of black brick kilns illegally restricted the personal freedom of migrant workers, illegally hired child workers, forced migrant workers to work overtime, and beat migrant workers to death and disability, which caused extremely negative social effects and even triggered large-scale reports from foreign media. Afterwards, the Shanxi provincial government made an inspection to the State Council.