One Million Accidents in China Last Year, Claiming 130,000 Lives

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One Million Accidents in China Last Year, Claiming 130,000 Lives

Lack of safety awareness is the No.1 cause for all accidents in China, Zhang Baoming, head of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, said Tuesday. While there were fewer accidents last year than in the previous years, the figures are still striking -- 2001 saw one million accidents, which caused 130,000 deaths nationwide, Zhang noted.

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Lack of safety awareness is the No.1 cause

Lack of safety awareness is the No.1 cause for all accidents in China, Zhang Baoming, head of the State Administration of Work Safety Supervision, said Tuesday.

While there are were fewer accidents last year than in the previous years, the figures are still striking -- 2001 saw one million accidents, which caused 130,000 deaths nationwide, Zhang noted.

Of all the accidents reported, 140 were very serious ones, with the death toll more than 10 each, totally claiming 2,556 lives.

Of the overall number of deaths from accidents reported last year, a whopping 81.5 percent of them came from traffic accidents, statistics show.

There are were 760,000 traffic accidents last year, which caused 106,000 deaths.

Workplace accidents were also a big concern, Zhang said, adding shabby infrastructure and a lack of safety awareness must be overcome to improve work safety.

Over 116,000 People Killed in Accidents in China from January to November Last Year

A total of 116,858 people died in over 940,000 accidents in China in the first 11 months of last year, up 26.5 percent from the same period of 2000, according to official sources.

Zhang Baoming, director of the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), the country's top watchdog on production safety, said 81.5 percent of the casualties were caused by transportation accidents, which saw a year-on-year increase of 11.3 percentage points. Full Story

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