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China's industrial safety changed for the better in 2003 with a drop in injury accidents, Director of the State Administration of Production Safety (SAPS) Wang Xianzheng said Tuesday.
Speaking at the videophone conference on the second National Industrial Safety Month, Wang said accidents totaled 385,000 with 48,504 people killed in China in the first five months this year, dropping 13.9 percent and 7.8 percent respectively over the same period last year.
He also mentioned that serious accidents were still frequently taking place and the industrial safety situation in some regions and fields remained grim.
Wang urged departments concerned to create an atmosphere of treasuring life and stressing safety through the industrial safety month, which has been jointly initiated by the SAPS and another four departments since 2002.
(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2003)
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