On April 23, the leading group of emergency work of the Ministry of Transport held a meeting to summarize the work in 2020, review the relevant system documents, and deploy the work in 2021 systematically. Li Xiaopeng, Leadership team leader, and minister of Ministry of Transport, presided over the meeting. He stressed that it is necessary to follow the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core and thoroughly study General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on transportation and emergency management. He also noted that all the comrades should make contributions to the innovative development of transport emergency management for building a powerful transportation country.
Li Xiaopeng said that in 2020, cadres of the transportation industry played an important role in serving the Party and the country's major strategies and major tasks. Under the leadership of the office for epidemic prevention and the emergency work, each relevant unit devoted itself to the combat of epidemic prevention and control and conventional emergency response. In the meantime, each relevant unit perfectly completed the mission, including epidemic prevention and control, safe production, transportation service, emergency response, on-duty watchkeeping, information reporting, formulating regulations, and providing support for key periods and major events. With their efforts, it witnessed a vital step forward in advancing the emergency management work of the Ministry towards standardization and high quality.
Li Xiaopeng emphasized that it is necessary to promote the modernization of the transportation emergency response system and capabilities. With its development, we can solve major challenges and make progress in the modernization of the national governance system and capabilities and in building a powerful transportation country. Besides, the modernization of the transportation emergency response system and capabilities also plays an important role in building a peaceful and beautiful country with its people leading a better life, In such occasion, we must take our responsibilities to follow the leadership of the Party and meet the people’s wishes, strengthen our sense of mission and responsibility, and fulfill our responsibilities in guarding our land, so as to fulfill the tasks entrusted to us by the Party and the people.
Li Xiaopeng made guiding instructions on transportation emergency response. We should resolutely adhere to the Party’s leadership, hold the bottom line and follow the "Two Adherence, Three Innovations" theory. We should push the development of our regulations and give full play to their advantages. Playing a pioneering role, all the cadres should focus on the annual major task to improve the comprehensive capabilities of emergency response.
Li Xiaoping also made detailed guideline on improving the transportation emergency response capabilities. First, we will resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and effectively ensure epidemic prevention and control, workplace safety, and transportation services. Second, based on the former experience of epidemic prevention and control, we will set comprehensive plan on emergency response. Third, we will continue to advance the modernization of the transportation emergency response system and capabilities and its high-quality development. Fourth, we will hold the bottom line, strengthen the awareness of danger, and improve the ability against major challenges. Fifth, we will improve the operating mechanism of the Ministry's Emergency Response Leading Group. Sixth, we will give full play to the advantages of information integration of the comprehensive emergency command center for transport, and build specialized emergency duty organizations, intelligent information exchange centers, and a normal dispatch and command platforms. Seventh, we will focus on the departmental coordination and source prevention for the safe production and emergency response. Eighth, we will take the initiative to act and cooperate with relevant departments to ensure traffic and transportation security for major events, so as to ensure nothing goes wrong.
On the arrival May Day holiday, Li Xiaopeng stressed that all departments must be vigilant and always be on stand-by. No negligence shall be tolerated. It means that all the units should formulate relevant measures for safe production, epidemic prevention and control, service improvement, traffic maintaining, and on-duty work.
Wang Zhiqing, the vice minister, Li Tianbi, Ministry’s safety director, and chief planner Wang Yang attended the meeting, together with responsible comrades of the emergency work leading office of the Ministry of Transport.