Shortly after the fire, Shaohua City held an expanded meeting of the Municipal Party Standing Committee.
At the meeting, Municipal Party Secretary Sima Yanan stressed that they must learn deeply from the major fire of August 18 and make workplace safety their overriding priority. With firm resolve and stringent measures, they had to thoroughly rectify every problem exposed, win the tough battle for workplace safety, and safeguard the people's lives and property.
Mayor Zhou Yi also pointed out in his speech that the major fire had exposed serious problems in the city's workplace safety practices, including failures to fulfill primary responsibilities, identify hidden hazards, and enforce regulations. The price had been devastating, and the lesson profoundly painful.
Every county, district, and department had to fully recognize the long-term, arduous, and complex nature of workplace safety, thoroughly analyze both the chance factors and underlying inevitabilities behind the accident, and act with an unwavering commitment to leaving nothing to chance and a keen awareness that a single failure could undo everything. They had to shoulder their political responsibility to promote local development and ensure local safety, sparing no effort in enforcing workplace safety measures.
Over the next three months, they were to concentrate personnel and resources on exhaustive, sweeping inspections for safety hazards across every area, industry, and organization, striving to resolve problems before accidents occurred.
Deputy Municipal Party Secretary Zhang Hui, Executive Vice Mayor Fang Daye, Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary and Public Security Director Jiang Yongcheng, and the other standing committee members felt dispirited as they looked at the secretary and mayor, whose expressions were even graver than usual.
In truth, Mayor Zhou and Secretary Sima said much the same things at every workplace safety meeting. But even the best policies and directives were powerless against certain idiots lower