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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) — China saw a decline in the number of industrial accidents and fatalities in 2025 amid the country's efforts to strengthen accident prevention and enforcement.
According to data released Thursday by China's Ministry of Emergency Management, 18,261 people died in 19,884 industrial accidents nationwide last year. Compared to 2024 targets, these figures represent a decrease of 8.7 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
Over the past year, not a single major incident was recorded in the country. According to national regulations, this category includes incidents that result in the deaths of more than 30 people, serious injuries to 100 or more people, or direct economic losses of 100 million yuan (approximately $14.2 million).
According to the Ministry, the improved level of industrial safety is the result of a systemic transition to a preventative-oriented safety management model.
Last year, the State Council's Industrial Safety Commission dispatched 22 central-level inspection teams, whose members identified more than 17,000 hidden hazards, including 585 serious ones.
Last year, China experienced a variety of natural disasters, including floods, geological cataclysms, earthquakes, typhoons, and others, affecting 67.03 million people and causing direct economic losses of 241.62 billion yuan. During the year, national emergency response mechanisms were activated 24 times, the highest number in nearly a decade.
According to the ministry, nearly 400,000 essential supplies were distributed in advance to 400 high-disaster-risk counties to provide more effective assistance to victims.
The effectiveness of this approach was proven after the magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Tingri County in the Xizang Autonomous Region of southwest China in early 2025. Despite the region's remoteness, the first batch of humanitarian aid and supplies was delivered to the affected area within six hours of the powerful tremor.
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