On September 29, China Minmetals attended a video conference on work safety for central SOEs and convened a special meeting on work safety. Chen Dexin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of China Minmetals, presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. Members of China Minmetals' leadership team present at headquarters attended the meeting.

The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented the important expositions and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on work safety, conveyed the requirements of the National Video Conference on Work Safety and the Video Conference on Work Safety for central SOEs, and reviewed and arranged key ongoing work safety tasks of China Minmetals.

The meeting stressed that all entities must earnestly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, and promptly implement the requirements of the higher-level meetings at frontline production sites. We shall uphold the principle of “putting people first and prioritizing lives”, and foster the mindset that “when the public celebrates the holidays, officials must stand guard”. We shall continue to improve the safety management system centered on the work safety responsibility system, and enforce work safety responsibilities at every level. We shall focus on preventing major risks in key areas, improve the quality and effectiveness of comprehensive safety hazard inspections and rectification campaigns, emphasize “taking real action and delivering tangible results”, firmly hold the bottom line of work safety, and ensure a stable work safety situation during the holiday period.

The meeting required that enterprises at all levels continue to implement end-to-end safety supervision measures; that principal responsible persons personally plan and make arrangements, take the lead in going to the front lines, and oversee the rectification of major safety hazards; that they closely guard against accidents such as fires and strengthen safety precautions at mixed-use production and business sites; and that they strictly implement leadership duty arrangements during the holidays and 24-hour on-duty shifts at key posts.

The meeting was attended by heads of various departments at China Minmetals headquarters, principal responsible persons of directly managed enterprises, principal responsible persons of key subsidiaries, and responsible persons in charge of production, operations, and work safety at those subsidiaries, as well as colleagues from relevant departments.