What a ashamed for me. This is my hometwon. Xinmi city is very special in China, it is 4.3 % in China Totally. The State Council announcement to the 47 serious accidents

http://www.china-daily.org/China-News/The-State-Council-announcement-to-the-47-serious-accidents/

2010-09-08 13:29:37 

What is a ashamed for me!Grave accidents in Henan is 8.5% of total in China.
Grave accidents in Zhengzhou is 6.4% total in China
Grave accidents in Xinmi is 4.3% total in China



十二、河南省（4起）4 grave work safety accidents in Henan

19. "2.28" grave road traffic accident in Xinmi City, Zhengzhou of Henan

20. "3.15 "Xinmi city Dongxing coal mine fire accident in Zhengzhou of Henan

21. "4.22" Gas explosion coal mine accident of Xingdong No.2 coal mine of Weidong district of Pingdingshan city of Henan [Where is corrupt senior communist official: Mr.Tuiechui ZHAO's (head of coal mine work safety administration Bureau)hometown].I hold evidence about his corruption.

22. "8.2" grave accident about gas explosion of SanYuanDong coal mine of Dengfeng of Zheng Coal Group Co. Ltd of Henan


19.河南省郑州市新密市“2・28”重大道路交通事故。
　　20.河南省郑州市新密市东兴煤业有限公司“3・15”重大火灾事故。
　　21.河南省平顶山市卫东区兴东二矿“4・22”重大瓦斯爆炸事故。
　　22.河南省郑州煤业集团公司登封公司三元东煤矿“8・2”重大煤与瓦斯突出事故。


Xinhua Beijing on September 8 (Xinhua Zhu Liyi) SAWS spokesman Huang Yi, 8, said the safety committee by the State Council formulated and promulgated the "Measures supervise the handling of major incidents," has been recently implemented. According to this approach, the State Council Office of the first announcement to the public safety committee this year, 47 serious accidents since the list.
Huang Yi, said, "The State Council on Further Strengthening the Work of Safety in Production," clearly states that "the implementation of the State Department major accident investigation committee supervise the handling of production safety." To this end, the State Council formulated and promulgated a safety committee "means supervise the handling of major incidents", and supervise the handling of the process, matter, content, publicity and accountability and so explicitly.
Under this approach, the State Council's security committee on the investigation and handling of major incidents, supervise the handling of the implementation of the State Council, the Office of Safety Authority undertake supervise the handling of specific matters. The provincial government is responsible for implementing supervise the handling of the matter, the provincial government offices to take specific charge of the security committee of major accidents supervise the handling of administrative matters within the comprehensive work.
provincial government received supervise the handling of the notification, should be based on relevant regulations, organizations and urge the relevant functional departments in accordance with the supervision of the notice requirement for the following: do the accident aftermath; finding out the causes, identify the nature of the accident ; distinguish responsible for the accident, put forward the views of persons responsible for handling; economic punishment according to law; the formation of accident investigation reports; monitoring the implementation of accident prevention and corrective measures. Provincial People's Government shall supervise the handling of receiving the notice within 60 days from the date of completion of supervision issues.
this approach provides a major accident investigation closed the case, the provincial People's Government Security Committee Security Committee and the State Department's Office shall supervise the handling of cases of major accidents and accident investigation cases closed in the central mainstream media and the central site China Work Safety News, Safety Supervision Administration Web site to be announced, to accept social supervision.
based on this approach, the State Council Office of the first announcement to the public safety committee this year has been 47 serious accidents related to the list, the distribution of these major accidents in the country's 23 provinces.
State Administration of Safety Supervision, Ministry of Supervision Central Discipline Inspection Commission also announced the same day, Xinhua District 4 Pingdingshan mine, "9.8" particularly serious gas explosion in Henan mine Pingdingshan Weidong Qu Hing Tung 2 "6.21" incident particularly important Explosives, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, Xiangtan County wins mine "1.5" major fire accidents in particular three special results of the investigation and handling of major incidents, three incidents were a total of 176 persons responsible for handling .
SAWS spokesman Huang Yi, said it three after the accident, the accident investigation team composed of the State Council promptly investigated. The investigation, three accidents are accidents, leaving a total of 159 miners died in the direct economic loss more than 8750 million. State Department Accident Investigation Unit report has been submitted by the State Council approved, SAWS has been the province where the accident occurred were

Zhang Wen: “China is Sick" especially for coal mine industry and Zhengzhou city

Zhang Wen: “China is Sick”

April 28, 2010

By Chris Hearne

The following is a translation of this piece by Zhang Wen:

Translation

In recent times, catastrophes of both the natural world and the human world have been piling up. For me this is rather perplexing.

Rain water has always been plentiful in Southeast China, so this once in a lifetime drought in and of itself is a little bit unthinkable. In the face of this great drought, what’s even more bizarre is the indifference in the government and in popular opinion. Government emphasis and rescue efforts didn’t start until the middle of this month, and those outside of the southeast have expressed “none of my concern” attitude. My own media outlet didn’t begin full-length pieces on the situation until recently.

Similar to this phenomenon is the indifference to the life of the murdered children in Nanping [a city in northern Fujian province -Ed]. Judging from the current reports, the murderer Zheng Minsheng [who allegedly murdered eight school children] was a failure at life without stable work, and a failure in love as well. He therefore went out to take vengeance on the evils of society. What is impossible to understand, as well as impossible to forgive, is that he chose people weaker still than himself – elementary school victims. These innocent, immature human beings were completed unrelated and harmless to Zheng Minsheng.

There is only one thing to say: China is sick!

The rhythm of life is getting faster, stress and pressure are building up, and the future is unclear. This has caused more or less everyone in society to become infected with a psychological disorder. People are worried about themselves and their own families, all the while gradually losing compassion towards others. When you can’t even take care of yourself, how can you have excess emotional energy to attend to others?

For years, a one-sided emphasis on economic development has led millions on a single-minded quest for wealth and caused the nation the soar, but it has also buried a terrible sickness: the law of the jungle has entered into people’s hearts. The weak are food for the strong, and

fairness and justice are in short supply.

Social classes are dividing and dissolving into opposition. People’s relationships are mostly based on acquiring [personal] benefits and people no longer believe in traditions of mutual help and friendship. In fact, laughing at the poor while hating the rich has become the tone of mainstream society.

The economic successes of the last 30 years are hard to deny, but that people’s moral quality has degenerated is equally hard to deny. The ideas of Confucius, Mencius and Zhuangzi have been damaged almost beyond repair. Slogans like “Putting people first” and “a harmonious society” need to become reality, but the coming is slow.

To destroy is easy, to build is difficult. China is currently in a void. Popular expectations are outpacing changes in [society’s] system, and in their confusion people have no faith to comfort them.

Those foreigners that are unfamiliar with China exclaim, “China is rising!” China’s government is immensely smug as well, ambitiously carving up the world and expanding its own influence. Disobedient foreign companies are kicked out of the country before the government can be happy.

But clear-headed Chinese can only sigh helplessly [at the current situation]: what kind of monstrosity is this [China]! That China is “rising” is a fact, but it isn’t healthy, with ailments both numerous and gravely serious. The people’s lives are currently so-so: not happy, to say nothing of dignified. (Wen Jiabao’s words are genuine and heartfelt, but an old ailment is not easy to cure).

China is sick. Where is the deft hand, where is the magic wand that can stir life in dead wood?

Discussion

Amidst his admittedly cynical take on things, Zhang Wen brings up an interesting but (sometimes) overlooked point. China is developing, but towards what? The idea of a “rising China” is familiar to anyone reading this and it has even entered into popular media discourse in Western countries, but it is interesting to see how often the words “development” or “modern” (发展 and 现代) get thrown around both in the media, academia and in casual conversation without any clear concensus of what that precisely means beyond a rising per capita income. Development apparently just means “this road that we’re on.”

Even 50 years ago, Mao’s wish for China was to “surpass Britain and catch up to America.” In the context of a “rising China”, comparisons and contrasts between China and the United States are common. Calculating if, when and how China’s GDP will overtake that of the United States has almost become a parlor game among economists and commentators. But is the United States “developed” because it has a high GDP, or does it have a high GDP because it is developed? Another view might hold that the United States (and other developed countries) are developed because they have rule of law, transparent government and clean environments. Zhang Wen might argue that the populace needs a certain minimum moral fiber before a country can be considered developed. (Of course, you could also argue that the United States is not developed because it lacks these very things in the desired quantities).

What does it mean for China to “develop”? What could, or should, it mean? Is GDP or PPP the best tool for measuring China’s progress? Are alternative measures of development like the Human Development Index useful for China (or any country for that matter), or are these not “hard” enough? Supposing we had a magic wand to dispense gifts to various places in the world, what combination of traits might we bestow on China before it went from “developing” to “developed”?

Dealing With Protesters: A Workflow For Busy Officials

This is real my story!!!

Dealing With Protesters: A Workflow For Busy Officials

August 3, 2010

By C. Custer

Let’s say you’re a Chinese official, and someone in your precinct is accusing you of corruption (How dare he! Just because you took a few bribes doesn’t make you corrupt!) and threatening to go public, maybe even go to Beijing. What do you do? Here’s an interesting representation of it, via Southern Weekend:

The text reads from left to right: report, slander, detain, send home.

The first step is the citizen reporting you, the corrupt official. After they report you, you accuse them of slander — not how the citizen comes out of the second shack with handcuffs on — and have them detained by the police, ideally somewhere windowless like the house shown in the picture. Who knows what might happen to them in there! Anyway, after they’re detained, they’re sent back home, properly cowed and newly obedient.

Thank god. Now you can return to matters of more pressing concern to the public, such as whether they’d rather their tax dollars go to buying you a BMW or a Mercedes.

Coal Mining Accidents, Corruption, and Complacency

Coal Mining Accidents, Corruption, and Complacency

August 1, 2010

By C. Custer

If you’re not aware of the massive flaws inherent in China’s coal mining industry, it’s probably because coal mining accidents are so ubiquitous here that many people (including the media) just tune them out. I had been intending to write something about this for some time when I stumbled across this post by Zhao Shilong addressing the issue with more statistical depth and background information than I ever could have brought to bear.

Translation

“There’s been a coal mining accident in XX, several dozen people are dead. Do you want to send someone to investigate it?”
“Only a several dozen dead? It’s not big enough news, don’t bother.”
The above sentence is something I heard someone who holds a high position in the actually say once.
But we can’t just look at that sentence and condemn the cold-heartedness of the news media. There really are too many mining disasters, so many that if the number of people killed doesn’t reach a hundred, the story doesn’t interest anyone anymore. It’s been over a hundred years since the United States had a coal mining disaster in which more than a hundred people died, but for us, at most we go a year between accidents where at least one hundred die, and sometimes there are several such accidents in a single year.
A famous weekly publication in Beijing once had a debate about whether to continue reporting on coal mining disasters at all, because from their perspective, aside from the time, place, casualty numbers, and a few other details, the causes and the general story of each accident could just be copied and pasted from one story to the next.
Last week, a coal mining accident occurred in the United States, in West Virginia, and 29 people died. The US President Obama made an announcement to the country, reading a list of the names of each person who died and conveying the entire nation’s grief. This accident was their first in several decades; the last coal mining accident in West Virginia, which was in 1984, left 13 people dead.
Obama said¹, “these miners represented the best of America. Our nation cannot tolerate people losing their lives just for doing their jobs. We cannot bring back the 29 lives that were lost, so our duty here is to make sure that this kind of tragedy doesn’t happen again.”
Obama said, “I cannot accept that the lives of coal miners is just one of the prices of the mining industry.”
These words shows why America is why America is great and powerful, and why people want to go there.
America is second only to China in the world in coal mining. Because of this respect for life, in recent years, the mortality rate for every billion tons of coal produced in the US is consistently under 0.03%. Conversely, China is a “double champion”, boasting the highest overall number of coal mining deaths in the world and the highest coal mining death rate proportionally. Of the major coal mining accidents in the world (accidents where more than ten people die), 90% occur in China.
Since 2000, China has lost at least a thousand coal miners every year. In between 2002 and 2004, the number of deaths per year climbed above 6000, 200 times the number in the US for the same time period. In 2009, China lost 2630 coal miners, 77 times more than the US. In the long term, China’s output only amounts for 35% of the world’s coal, but China has 80% of the world’s coal mining deaths. Every year four times the number of coal miners die in China as die in the entire rest of the word combined. It’s clear there is a huge problem in management, stemming largely from the collaboration of government and commercial interests [that leads to] corruption and incompetence.
Pushed into a corner, the government came out with the “tied-together” system², which requires officials and management level employers to go down into the mines with workers on a regular basis. But in the past month an accident occurred and the people have discovered that the “tied-together” system isn’t strong enough to hold down these slippery officials, who, without exception, are still completely safe.

Comments

Zhao is right, in that it’s difficult to blame the media for not constantly reporting stories that, in essence, are the same thing. And I admit that when I see a headline about coal mining, my eyes often drift away before I even get to the lede — it is a story that we all have read before.
Of course, boredom doesn’t excuse complacency in the face of what might be described as institutionalized disaster. The accident statistics Zhao lays out in his article are evidence enough that the lives of these miners are considered part of the cost of industry, and it seems clear that no one — not the government, not the media, and not us, either — cares all that much about it.
Of course, the State Council did just pass the “tied-together” regulation in early July, but as Zhao says, it hasn’t really had any effect. No officials or high-level management have died in a coal mining accident. Why not? The answer is probably pretty simple: they’re not actually following the regulation and going into the mines at all. Our ChinaGeeks Chinese editor explained it quite nicely with a Chinese idiom: 天高皇帝远. “Heaven is high up, and the emperor is far away.” In other words, the State Council can’t physically be there to force anyone into the mines. And without being forced, how many corrupt officials and wealthy businessmen do you think are going to voluntarily put themselves deep underground in a place that’s dirty, dangerous, and full of poor people?
Stan Abrams wrote a piece on china/divide some time ago called “Why Doesn’t China Respect Life” in which he concluded that these disasters³ are the products of capitalism excess. He’s almost certainly right. The Yanzhou Coal Mining Co., for example, is one of the top 50 Chinese companies listed in US stock exchanges in terms of highest profit margins. There is money to be made in the coal business. Cutting corners is dangerous, but it saves money, which increases profit. And what’s the worst that can happen. When a disaster happens, as long as you only lose a few dozen miners, it’s “no harm no foul” as far as most people in China are concerned.
The government is never going to be able to force corrupt officials and businessmen into the mines, but it does have tight enough control of business that strict regulations might be able to reset the scales such that cutting corners when it comes to mining safety was no longer profitable. And going at these mining companies via business regulations allows the government to circumvent the legal system which, let’s face it, often isn’t up to the challenge of taking on corrupt local officials and businessmen.
My feeling — and keep in mind that I know almost nothing about business, so this is really just idle thought — is that these regulations should be completely ruthless, and coupled with a small but expert team of government scientists dispatched to investigate major coal mining accidents. If this team finds the accident to have been the result of negligence or incompetence on the part of management, the company should be fined. The fine should be something absolutely crippling regardless of the company’s size or strength. Perhaps for each miner killed, the company should have to pay the equivalent of 1.5% of their yearly total income (not profit). This money can go towards compensation for the families of the miners who were killed, and to pay the scientists on the government inspection teams huge salaries so that they’re difficult for local officials and businessmen to bribe. It’s not perfect, but without a real court system or a way of actually enforcing the new State Council regulations, I doubt there is a perfect way to approach this crisis.
If nothing else, it would certainly shake up the mining industry a bit, as an accident with 30 miners lost would cost a company 45% of their yearly income. Many of these companies have been making large profits for years, and could probably continue to operate through a few disasters; one hopes that by the time their mountains of profits began to run dry, they might have begun to implement some of the safety standards that make American coal mines so (comparatively) safe.
But, like I said, I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination on coal mining or government business regulation. So how can China actually fix this coal mining problem? I leave that to you, and I hope people will pick up the question in the comments section below.
Of course, what the government does is well beyond out control. As people, we can only fight our complacency when it comes to these disasters, and try to see each one for what it really is, not just another headline but a tragedy leaves families shattered and young lives extinguished. And, more often than not, a tragedy that could have been prevented if the companies involved cared a little more about life and a little less about profit.