Emergency Management Department: Strictly prohibit the public release of production safety accident investigation reports, which were later retracted after a few days.

Today, the Ministry of Emergency Management held a press conference. The relevant person in charge stated that the public is highly concerned about the investigation results of production safety accidents. The full accident investigation report will be made public, which is not only necessary to protect the public's right to information and supervision, but also an important way to strengthen warning education and enhance the effectiveness of safety governance. Laws and regulations such as the "Work Safety Law" and the "Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation of Production Safety Accidents" have clear provisions on the public release of accident investigation reports. At the national level, investigation reports of major accidents are all fully disclosed to the public. However, for accidents investigated at the local level, some may not be disclosed or may be disclosed untimely for various reasons. Next, the State Council's Work Safety Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management will further strengthen the following measures: 1. Supervision and accountability: Major accidents, typical large accidents, and other typical accidents will be supervised and managed by the State Council's Work Safety Commission or the State Council's Work Safety Office. While supervising timely case closure, they will urge timely disclosure of investigation reports. Other larger and general production safety accidents will be supervised by provincial and municipal Work Safety Commissions to ensure transparency. 2. Inspection and verification: Production safety accidents investigated by local governments will be randomly checked and scheduled to verify the public release of investigation reports. If reports are not disclosed or are disclosed untimely, they will be followed up and reported promptly. Public disclosure is a long-term commitment and retracting reports after a few days is strictly prohibited. 3. Assessment and inspection: The continued public disclosure of accident investigation reports will be included as an important part of central safety production inspections, urging local party committees and governments at all levels to fulfill their territorial responsibilities and penalize regions that do not disclose or disclose untimely. In the assessment of rectification after the closure of accidents, the public disclosure of investigation reports will be an important part of the evaluation. In some cases, some regions incorrectly classify production safety accidents as natural disasters, criminal cases, or accidents, or do not investigate according to procedures, and even if they investigate, they do not disclose the findings. Such issues will be strictly dealt with as falsification of investigation statistics. Those responsible for misleading public information in published investigation reports will be held accountable according to the law. For production safety accidents involving sensitive information such as trade secrets, investigation reports should be appropriately processed and disclosed in accordance with the law, but refusal to disclose should not be justified by such sensitive information.