Wenling Shut Down 4000 Shoe Companies Refused To Bring Blood GDP

Recently, the Zhejiang provincial safety supervision department announced the "1. 14" major fire accident investigation report of Taizhou Dadong shoe industry Co., Ltd.

Around 14:40 in January 14, 2014, a fire occurred in Taizhou Dadong Shoes Co., Ltd., located in the north of the city of Wenling, Taizhou. The fire burned area was about 1080 square meters, resulting in 16 deaths and 5 injuries.

The accident has now been identified as a major liability accident.

According to the report, 15 responsible persons including Li Bin, mayor of Wenling, were treated by Party discipline or political discipline, and 2 representatives of shoe factory legal representatives and shareholders were investigated for criminal responsibility.

The report revealed that Taizhou's Dadong Footwear Co., Ltd., which killed 16 people, was worth 4 million 990 thousand yuan last year.

This 4 million 990 thousand is also included in Wenling's 74 billion 830 million yuan GDP last year, and Wenling has always been one of Zhejiang's strong economy.

The 16 life also made Wenling proud of its GDP number.

A week after the fire, Xia Baolong, Secretary of the Zhejiang provincial Party committee, denounced Wenling's small profits and losses in the political and legal work conference of the province, and did not take the initiative to solve the problem of safety production in the low shoemaking industry for GDP. This shows that the local government is not responsible for it. Wenling is a lesson from the fact that small profits suffer from big losses, sharp and smart, and everywhere we need to draw blood from Wenling's fire. We must adhere to the source governance and speed up the transformation and upgrading of the economy.

The accident investigation team identified the accident as a major liability accident. The direct cause was the electrical line fault in the north half of the steel shed located on the east side of the shoe factory, igniting fires around the shoe boxes and other combustibles. The indirect causes of the accident include: the main workshop of Dadong shoe factory has not been approved by fire control, the fire hydrant in the workshop is virtually empty; the internal safety management of the shoe factory is chaotic, and the main responsibility of the safety production is not implemented; Wenling, North Street and the district police station, Yang Wei Wei village committee and so on all have ineffective supervision and even indulge in violation of regulations.

The report shows that the Dadong shoe factory employs 83 employees and has not signed a labor contract. Shoe factory internal safety management confusion, the main responsibility of safety production is not implemented, no specific responsibility for fire safety, and due to the size of wages and staff mobility and other reasons, the internal organization and management of enterprises loose, safety production responsibility system, safety production rules and regulations are not effective implementation and implementation;

According to reports, the main building only set up 1 indoor hydrants in the first floor and two floors of indoor staircases, but the indoor fire hydrants were not connected to the municipal fire pipe network, nor the roof water tank, so the hydrant was in an anhydrous state.

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According to the report, the Dadong shoe factory has unauthorized construction of the irregular shape illegal building surrounded by a single layer iron shed and brick walls without approval, and has been used so far. Irregularities unauthorized iron shed increases fire load, and affects evacuation and fire fighting.

According to the report, in the past ten years since the establishment of Dadong shoe factory, local fire departments, police stations, and other relevant functional departments have not conducted fire and safety inspection of the enterprise, nor have the city management departments taken any punishment and dismantling measures against the illegal iron shed built by them.

According to the report, the Chengbei street of Wenling signed the annual responsibility document of comprehensive production safety management in April 2013 with Dadong shoe factory. The village cadres inspect the fire safety situation of the enterprise every month. The last inspection was only half a month away from the fire. Strangely, no major fire safety problems were found in the East shoe factory.

Perhaps any one of the reports can be corrected so that 16 lives can not be withered.

In other words, the 4 million 990 thousand GDP in Wenling is made by illegal labor, illegal buildings, safety measures and the absence of government supervision and the cost of 16 lives. It is GDP with blood.

In recent years, there has been a lot of controversy about the development of regional economy in terms of GDP. But not only the GDP figures, but also the consensus on the structure, quality and cost behind the GDP. GDP can not be at the cost of pollution, nor at the expense of people's life and property and dignity, but never GDP with blood.

Wenling's 4 million 990 thousand GDP, it is easy to see that although the so-called "China's shoe industry", but in the past 20 years, Wenling footwear industry has not yet got rid of the "low, small and scattered" pattern, about 80% of which are small workshops, and its security risks can be imagined. A considerable part of the profits of local footwear industry comes from the cost advantages caused by illegal employment and illegal construction.

Wenling's 4 million 990 thousand GDP, we clearly see that in the eyes of some officials, for the growth of GDP, we can indulge in supervision for ten years.

It is understood that after the fire, the local government launched a fire safety major renovation action. As of 2014, before the Spring Festival, 4559 enterprises were shut down, and 262 thousand and 600 square meters of buildings were demolished.

At present, after the renovation, some of the shoe enterprises that have been shut down have resumed work.

If development is a fish, safety and environmental protection are the bear's paw. How to have both fish and bear paws will test the wisdom and courage of local leaders all over the long term.