Yingshan, Sichuan: Heavy measures are taken to rectify hidden dangers, and technological supervision is strengthened with powerful tools

Recently, the Ministry of Emergency Management issued a notice praising a typical case of successful risk avoidance in Yingshan County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. On the noon of July 21st, officials in Caocun Village, Xiaoqiao Town, Yingshan County received a warning message and promptly relocated villagers from a century old house with safety hazards in the village. During the thunderstorm and strong wind that night, this old house collapsed, and six villagers, including two elderly people in their nineties, successfully sought refuge.

In recent years, Yingshan County has deeply practiced the safety concept of "putting people first and life first", with "risk prevention, safety protection, and benefiting people's livelihoods" as the main line, solidly carrying out safety production, disaster prevention and reduction, emergency management, and forest fire prevention and control work, making every effort to prevent and resolve major safety hazards, and effectively protecting the safety of people's lives and property. The safety production situation in the whole county is stable and improving, with no major or above production safety accidents occurring for 24 consecutive years, laying a good foundation for economic and social development.

Focusing on grassroots foundations to build a solid foundation for safe development

On October 17th, the author saw at the village level public service center in Shengshui Village, Luoshi Town, Yingshan County that the easy to understand and vivid safety culture wall attracted villagers to stop and watch. The mini fire station was equipped with fire extinguishers, generators, fire water bags, fire uniforms, fire stairs and other necessary equipment. The walls of the rural courtyard were posted with propaganda posters on safe electricity and household biogas... "Through the implementation of the residents' safety quality improvement project, the public's safety awareness and skills have been continuously enhanced," said Li Jiquan, the secretary of the Shengshui Village Party Branch.

Shengshui Village carried out safety knowledge promotion around rural transportation, fire protection, drowning prevention, disaster avoidance, electricity, gas, etc., held comprehensive emergency rescue drills, invited county Red Cross training teachers to teach emergency rescue skills, and continuously enhanced residents' safety skills and awareness. In late September, Yingshan experienced continuous heavy rain, and 9 residents in the geological landslide area of Group 2 of Shengshui Village needed to be evacuated in a timely manner. After the village cadres went to the households for publicity, they received full understanding and active cooperation from the villagers, and successfully transferred and avoided danger.

In response to the weak safety awareness of rural residents, Yingshan has implemented a project to enhance their safety literacy. The key is to build a safety culture corridor, open driver's homes and safety and health lectures, establish micro fire stations, regularly carry out safety publicity and education training, continuously improve residents' safety awareness, and tie the 'safety rope' to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and promote rural revitalization, "said Zheng Yuanyuan, Deputy Director of the Emergency Management Bureau of the county.

In recent years, Yingshan has incorporated the construction of safe towns into the comprehensive promotion of people's livelihood projects. With the implementation of safety promotion projects as the starting point, around the "7+N" construction model, a large number of safety demonstration streets, cultural squares, corridors, safety demonstration campuses, safety standardized enterprises, and emergency response points have been built. We will continue to make efforts from the three dimensions of technology, management, and culture, solidly carry out the construction of provincial-level demonstration cities for safe development, and comprehensively enhance the city's ability to ensure safety and the level of safe operation.

As of now, Yingshan has been built into a provincial-level demonstration city for safe development, 21 townships (streets) have been built into provincial-level safe townships (streets), 293 villages (communities) have implemented projects to improve residents' safety quality, 2 safety experience bases, 21 safety experience rooms, and more than 200 safety propaganda sites have been established. We have carried out in-depth safety propaganda activities in enterprises, government agencies, schools, communities, and families, continuously consolidating the foundation of safety production, significantly reducing various safety accidents, and continuously increasing residents' satisfaction.

Implementing risk management and promoting the large-scale investigation and rectification of hidden dangers

On October 17th, the author saw a brand new reinforced concrete bridge spanning the river in Taojiaba, Zisheng Village, Xinghuo Town, Yingshan County, with vehicles and pedestrians passing by from time to time. There used to be a cement slab bridge that fell into disrepair and became a dangerous bridge. After the village committee reported this safety hazard to the Xinghuo Town government, it was listed as the first batch of major accident hazard rectification projects in the county in 2025, and received more than 470000 yuan in transfer payment subsidies from revolutionary old areas for the construction of a new bridge, "said Duan Xiaoling, the secretary of the village party branch,

In early April of this year, the project started smoothly. After more than a month of hard work, the new bridge was built. Eliminating safety hazards, realizing the villagers' dream of building a new bridge, and thanking the government for doing a practical and good thing for the villagers, "said Luo Yongjun, a villager from Group 1 of the village.

Xie Bin, Director of the Emergency Management Bureau of Yingshan County, introduced that the first batch of major accident hazard rectification projects in the county in 2025, including the collapse of the village road in Xindu Village, Xiaoshui Town, the landslide of Laoguan Village Road, the settlement and collapse of the X172 Liaoye Hexing Road subgrade and pavement, and the steep bends and slopes of the section from Xiaopeng Community to Huazhai Village in Luoshi Town, have all been completed and cancelled. The second batch of major accident hazard rectification projects in 2025 is being promoted in an orderly manner.

In April of this year, the Yingshan County Highway Bureau invited a professional inspection team from the Bridge Inspection Office of the Municipal Highway Bureau to conduct comprehensive technical inspections on 16 key national and provincial trunk bridges in the county. Based on the inspection results, the renovation of dangerous bridges and special disease control will be promoted. In June, the Emergency Management Bureau of Yingshan County hired safety production experts to conduct safety inspections of limited space operations in food enterprises in the Economic Development Zone. A total of 24 safety hazards were identified, including 2 major safety hazards, which have now been fully supervised and rectified. Promote 6 metal smelting enterprises and 5 dust explosion related industrial and trade enterprises to carry out safety facility design diagnosis, and hire safety production experts to investigate and rectify major accident hazards and high-risk areas of 33 industrial and trade enterprises.

In recent years, Yingshan County has comprehensively promoted risk identification and graded control, focusing on key industries, key areas, and key parts, conducting a comprehensive investigation of urban risks, in-depth identification and scientific evaluation, and clarifying the quantity, type, level, and distribution of risks in various industries and regions. Continuously carry out safety hazard investigation and rectification in key industries such as hazardous chemicals, fireworks and firecrackers, transportation, fire protection, and industrial and mining commerce.

According to statistics, since 2024, more than 860 law enforcement personnel have been dispatched, more than 430 enterprises have been inspected, more than 960 hidden dangers have been identified, and the timely rectification rate has reached 100%.

Strengthening technological empowerment and continuously improving disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities

You have entered the forest fire prevention zone. Please travel in a civilized manner, do not smoke or use fire in the forest area, and strictly prohibit bringing fire sources into the mountains... "On October 18th, the author arrived at Taipengshan National Forest Park in Yingshan County. While listening to the three-dimensional broadcast promotion, a prompt message was also sent to the mobile phone to strengthen the forest fire prevention awareness of visitors.

At the Taipengshan National Forest Park Service Center, staff are on duty in the hotspot monitoring room. As soon as an abnormal hotspot is detected, we will immediately call the police. After receiving the alarm, we will arrange relevant personnel to verify and handle it on site as soon as possible, "said Ren Yonghui, director of the Taipengshan National Forest Park Service Center. The forest fire monitoring and warning system can achieve" automatic scanning, automatic detection, automatic alarm, and automatic positioning "of fires within the visible range of the fire prevention area. In unobstructed conditions, faces and vehicle contours can be seen within 3 kilometers and 5 kilometers respectively.

It is reported that the government of Yingshan County has invested nearly 4 million yuan to build an emergency management comprehensive application platform, covering 8 basic functions such as supervision and supervision, monitoring and early warning, emergency rescue, auxiliary decision-making, government management, consultation and scheduling, mobile command, and urban risk index. It connects 29 townships (streets), 17 functional departments, and 500 key enterprises (units) in the county, integrates more than 500 video surveillance channels for production enterprises, road traffic, and other types, enhances monitoring and sensing of urban lifelines such as water, electricity, and gas, strengthens monitoring and early warning of large mass activities, key places, and key time periods, realizes timely perception, early prediction and early warning of urban risks, and efficient disposal and response, and maximizes the avoidance and reduction of safety accidents.

The competent departments of various industries in Yingshan promote the construction of smart security platforms, fully utilizing emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud technology, and big data. More than 2000 places and units have been included in the smart security supervision network and integrated into the emergency management comprehensive application platform for unified monitoring and early warning, achieving data sharing and information exchange.

"Taking science and technology as the 'fulcrum', we will certainly receive the effect of 'four or two calls for a thousand pounds'." Gou Hu, deputy director of Yingshan County Emergency Management Bureau, introduced that the county has promoted and used a number of progressiveness safety products, such as six rotor UAVs, water rescue robots, life detectors, satellite phones, which greatly improved the accuracy, efficiency and timeliness of emergency rescue. (Peng Jie)