Henan Province Serious Investigation and Punishment of Personnel Responsible for the Anyang "11.21" Special Major Fire Accident | Trading Co., Ltd. | Accident | Anyang
Recently, the reporter learned from relevant departments in Henan Province that after the particularly serious fire accident of Anyang Kaixinda Trading Co., Ltd. on November 21, the Party Central Committee attached great importance to it and made arrangements for emergency rescue, treatment of injured persons, and accident investigation and disposal as soon as possible. The public security organs in Henan Province have filed investigations and taken criminal coercive measures against 8 employees of enterprises suspected of illegal activities. The disciplinary inspection and supervision organs in Henan Province, in accordance with the management authority of cadres, have held 58 public officials suspected of violating discipline and law in the accident seriously accountable in accordance with regulations and laws.
Eight individuals, including Kang Xuejian, the actual controller of Anyang Kaixinda Trading Co., Ltd., Kang Jige, the legal representative, and Zhang Jianliang, the actual controller of Anyang Shangxin Clothing Co., Ltd., are suspected of committing major liability accidents, major labor safety accidents, and major engineering safety accidents. They have been investigated and subjected to criminal coercive measures by the public security organs. Three public officials, including Qi Ke, the head of the Fire Supervision Department of the Anyang Fire Rescue Brigade, Hua Shengbing, the political instructor of the Wenfeng District Fire Rescue Brigade in Anyang City, and Song Fubin, a police officer from the Baoliansi Police Station of the Wenfeng Branch of the Anyang Public Security Bureau, were investigated and detained by the disciplinary inspection and supervision organs on suspicion of serious violations of discipline and law. The relevant issues of dereliction of duty crimes were transferred to the procuratorial organs for legal review and prosecution.
At the same time, Henan Province held accountable 55 public officials from the Party committees and governments of Anyang City, Wenfeng District, and Baoliansi Town, as well as departments such as fire rescue, public security, emergency management, commerce, natural resources, housing and urban-rural development, and urban management, for their dereliction of duty and responsibility in the accidents. Among them, Yuan Jiajian, Secretary of the Anyang Municipal Party Committee, was given an intra party warning, Gao Yong, Deputy Secretary of the Anyang Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, Wang Pu, Standing Committee Member of the Anyang Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Government Party Group, and Deputy Mayor, Ouyang Baojun, then member of the Anyang Municipal Government Party Group, Deputy Mayor, and Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, was given an intra party warning, and Wang Xinting, member of the Anyang Municipal Government Party Group and Deputy Mayor, was given an intra party warning. Other relevant responsible persons shall also be subject to disciplinary and administrative sanctions.
After the accident, the Henan Provincial Party Committee and Government conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, actively, steadily, and orderly carried out accident rescue and aftermath disposal, organized a comprehensive inspection of safety production throughout the province, focused on promoting the special rectification of fire safety in labor-intensive enterprises and the comprehensive management of fire safety in "nine small" places and street stores, and promoted the implementation of the leadership responsibilities of the Party Committee and government and the regulatory responsibilities of functional departments. After the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council made a decision on the investigation and handling of accidents, the Henan Provincial Party Committee quickly convened a meeting of the Standing Committee to implement it, further conducted in-depth inspections and reflections, deeply learned lessons, strictly punished and held accountable all responsible persons in accordance with regulations, disciplines, and laws, and made arrangements to further improve safety production work, enhance the modernization level of safety production governance system and governance capacity.