The State Administration convened an emergency video conference on work safety to comprehensively deploy the “Thunder Action” for workplace safety.

On August 12, the China National Bureau of Coal Geology convened an emergency video conference on work safety, thoroughly studying and implementing the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping on flood prevention, disaster relief, and work safety. The meeting also fully carried out the relevant arrangements issued by the State Council Work Safety Committee Office and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, and launched the Bureau’s “Thunder Action” for work safety. Jia Chunqu, Secretary of the Bureau’s Party Committee, attended the meeting and set forth specific work requirements; Fan Baoying, a member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director, presided over the meeting, while Deputy Director Ju Yitai conveyed the spirit of the relevant documents.

The meeting emphasized that ensuring workplace safety is a practical test of our loyalty to the “two establishments” and our resolute commitment to the “two upholds.” All levels of the organization must consciously elevate their political awareness and firmly shoulder the political responsibility of preventing and defusing safety risks. At this critical juncture—marking the successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and the strategic planning for the 15th—we must strike a balance between development and safety, as well as between long-term and short-term priorities, and fortify our safety defenses with a sense of responsibility that keeps us constantly vigilant.

The meeting emphasized that all efforts must be squarely focused on implementing the General Administration’s “Thunder Action” — with its 11 key tasks and six priority requirements. First, prioritize speed in response, with principal leaders personally taking charge of comprehensive deployment; second, emphasize practicality in identifying hidden risks, concentrating inspections on critical areas such as geological exploration and construction, ecological restoration projects, and self-built structures, while firmly rejecting superficial, perfunctory reviews; third, enforce strictness to drive corrective action, imposing escalated disciplinary measures on entities involved in accidents and holding those repeatedly failing to address similar hazards strictly accountable; fourth, ensure comprehensiveness in building a robust safety barrier, establishing a fully inclusive, organization-wide framework for hazard identification and elimination to leave no safety blind spot unaddressed; fifth, strengthen intrinsic safety by leveraging AI technologies to enhance risk forecasting capabilities; and sixth, guarantee effective implementation through rigorous enforcement, instituting a dual-track mechanism of “rectification closure plus outcome assessment” to shift from post‑incident response to proactive prevention.

The meeting emphasized the need to strengthen the “five‑responsibility synergy” accountability framework: Party committees must fulfill their principal responsibility; discipline inspection commissions must reinforce oversight and hold officials accountable; Party secretaries must serve as the primary persons responsible; leading team members must implement the “dual responsibility” system for their respective posts; and all staff must firmly uphold their individual responsibilities for workplace safety. Furthermore, efforts should be intensified to leverage the outcomes of inspection and巡察 activities by integrating systemic risks, institutional weaknesses, and implementation gaps identified during these processes with innovative measures and proven best practices developed in the course of corrective action, thereby institutionalizing a comprehensive governance system that spans the entire chain—prevention, supervision, response, and improvement. This approach requires both using problem‑solving and rectification to tighten the accountability loop and translating the results of immediate improvements into enduring, long‑term mechanisms.

The meeting underscored that it serves not only as a political mobilization call but also as a rallying cry for action. All Party organizations at every level across the board, along with the broad ranks of Party members and cadres, must conscientiously uphold the principle of “one goal and four ‘rather than’” approaches, closely integrate the “Thunderous Action” on workplace safety with flood‑control and disaster‑relief efforts and with the rectification of issues identified in special inspections on workplace safety, and adopt a zero‑tolerance stance to address risks and hidden dangers, thereby providing robust safety guarantees for serving national strategies and advancing high‑quality development.

The meeting was held in a “main venue plus video conference” format, with attendance by heads of internal departments at the General Administration headquarters and above, as well as members of the leading teams and responsible officials from relevant departments of all directly affiliated units and third-level units.