State Council Issues Opinions on Strengthening Grassroots Fire Protection

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the Opinions on Strengthening Grassroots Fire Protection (the "Opinions").

The Opinions call for adhering to the principles of putting prevention first and combining prevention with fire protection, adopting graded accountability with primary responsibilities to be assumed by localities, and establishing a grassroots fire protection work pattern featuring leadership by Party committees and governments, organization by fire protection authorities, interdepartmental collaboration, integrated county–township implementation, and mass prevention and mass governance. The document specifically requires: (1) strengthening territorial leadership; (2) strengthening comprehensive regulation; (3) strengthening industry management; (4) strengthening primary responsibility; and (5) strengthening social co-governance. Notably, the Opinions stress the actions to enhance self-management by entities, improve fire safety management rules, allocate fire protection facilities and equipment, and organize routine fire prevention inspections and fire protection training and drills. For places such as elderly care institutions, hospitals, and schools, fire safety requirements, such as keeping life passages unobstructed and regulating hot work operations, shall be strictly implemented, and comprehensive governance of areas and premises with high fire risks shall be strengthened. Furthermore, the Opinions highlight the efforts to strengthen incentives and restraints, further reduce burdens at the grassroots level, implement simplified grassroots law enforcement, strengthen supervision of administrative law enforcement, seriously investigate and handle fire accidents, and take the effectiveness of grassroots fire protection as an important reference in the rewards and punishments of grassroots officials.



(Source: https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/202603/content_7061164.htm)

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