Stop Spread of Occupational Diseases: Chinese Vice-Premier

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Stop Spread of Occupational Diseases: Chinese Vice-Premier

Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing has urged governments and the Party committee at all levels to take resolute measures to stem the spiraling occupational diseases.

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Stop Spread of Occupational Diseases: Chinese Vice-Premier

Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing has urged governments and the Party committee at all levels to take resolute measures to stem the spiraling occupational diseases.

In a speech at a national teleconference Thursday, the vice-premier reminded officials of the rising number of occupational diseases and urged them to take responsibility for protecting workers' health and legal interests.

Li noted that China had made remarkable achievements over the last few decades in the control of occupational diseases, thanks to the high priority attached to the issue by the government.

However, as production models of enterprises and the labor system changed, the harm of occupational diseases was getting very serious in some places, with rural migrating workers and temporary employees falling as the most frequent victims, he said.

The Vice-Premier condemned entrepreneurs who ignored relevant laws and took workers' lives lightly as well as government officials who sacrificed occupational disease control for economic growth.

He urged relevant authorities to attach greater importance to occupational disease control and treat it as a matter of importance to the national cause of reform, development and the maintenance of stability.

He called for the faithful enforcement of the law on occupational disease control and regulations concerning labor protection at dangerous working sites, as well as tougher punishment of lawbreakers.

Enterprises that failed to protect workers from serious occupational dangers and failed to improve their workshop safety should be resolutely closed down, he said.

Li also ordered health authorities to improve their supervision work and set up an occupational disease prevention and control system and a regulatory system.

Efforts should also be made to develop and apply new technologies and new materials that would make working environment safer, he said.

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