Wednesday, April 24 The 16th day of the third lunar month
Twenty-six people were killed in a major fire! 42 public officials were held accountable! An investigation report on the "16 November" major fire accident at the Yongju Coal Industry in Luliang, Shanxi Province was released to the public on 23 April. According to the report, the Shanxi Provincial Public Security Bureau has taken criminal coercive measures against 18 enterprise personnel suspected of violating the law and committing crimes, including the actual person in charge of Yongju Coal Industry. The Shanxi Provincial Discipline Inspection and Supervision Organs strictly held accountable 42 public officials of the Party committees and governments of Luliang City, Lishi District, and Chengbei Sub-districts, as well as the departments of energy, housing and construction, fire rescue, natural resources, emergency management, and mine supervision, in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law.
At about 6:30 on November 16, 2023, a fire broke out in the bathroom on the second floor of the joint building office building of Yongju Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Lishi District, Luliang City, resulting in 26 deaths, 38 injuries, a fire area of about 900 square meters, and a direct economic loss of 49.9026 million yuan.
The accident investigation team found that the direct cause of the accident was the damage and short circuit of the insulation layer of the main power supply line of the motor and the metal wire card in the No. 0625 hanging basket above the hanging basket on the second floor of the wellhead bathroom on the second floor of the office building of Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building, which ignited the combustibles in the hanging basket below, resulting in a fire, coupled with the ineffective emergency response in the early stage of the accident, which eventually caused major casualties.
On November 16, 2023, a fire broke out in the joint building of Yongju Coal Industry Co., Ltd. in Luliang, Shanxi, and firefighters were fighting the fire. (Video screenshot)
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domestic
Recently, the Ministry of Public Security deployed public security organs across the country to carry out the "Fox Hunt 2024" special operation to arrest fugitive overseas economic crime suspects.
According to the Supreme People's Procuratorate, last year, the procuratorate handled more than 940 public interest lawsuits on noise pollution.
On 23 April, the draft revision of the National Defense Education Law was submitted to the Ninth Session of the Standing Committee of the 14 th National People's Congress (NPC) for initial deliberation.
The National Health Insurance Administration recently organized all provinces across the country to carry out continuous procurement of insulin after the expiration of the agreement, and opened the bid in Shanghai on the 23rd.
The "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Non-bank Payment Institutions" will be implemented on May 1 this year, and the People's Bank of China solicited opinions on the implementation rules of this regulation on the 22nd.
The Office of the National Committee for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with the State Food and Material Reserves Administration, allocated 15,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials to support flood control and disaster relief in Guangdong.
The Shenzhou-18 mission completed the joint training of the whole region, and the astronauts and all systems at the launch site conducted the whole process of launch drills, all of which were in good condition.
The results of the 21st National Reading Survey were released on the 23rd. According to the survey, in 2023, the comprehensive reading rate of mainland adult citizens in various media, including books, newspapers, periodicals and digital publications, will be 81.9%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points from 81.8% in 2022.
On April 23, the 3rd National Reading Conference opened in Kunming, Yunnan Province.
The Chinese Athletics Association issued the "Implementation Rules for the Management of National Track and Field Events".
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international
On the 23rd local time, nearly 100 Japanese parliamentarians collectively visited the Yasukuni Shrine, and the Chinese side expressed its resolute opposition to the visit.
According to a report by Japan's TV Asahi on April 23, on the same day, the International Atomic Energy Agency began an investigation into the discharge of nuclear contaminated water from Fukushima into the sea.
According to the Korean Central News Agency on April 23, North Korea announced that it had launched a ballistic missile on the 22nd.
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, citing the Syrian Arab News Agency, on April 22, local time, the United States once again illegally stole Syrian oil.
On the 22nd local time, Israeli media and American media, citing anonymous Israeli and Egyptian officials, reported that the Israel Defense Forces are preparing to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and then launch an offensive, and combat operations in Rafah are expected to last at least six weeks.
Malaysia's military said on April 23 that two military helicopters crashed after colliding in Perak that day, killing 10 people.
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) issued a statement on the night of the 22nd local time reiterating the demand for a ceasefire in Gaza, accusing the United States and Israel of obstructing the agreement.
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority recently released a report saying that the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the worst large-scale bleaching event on record.
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Looking at China from overseas
Foreign media: The CEO of "Saudi Aramco" praised China's contribution to the West's goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions and called for global cooperation. According to a report by the Financial Times on April 22, there are voices accusing China of "dumping" cheap solar panels and electric vehicles into Europe, Saudi National Oil Company (hereinafter referred to as "Saudi Aramco") CEO Amin Nasser said at the World Energy Conference held in the Netherlands on the 22nd, "China has indeed helped by reducing the cost of solar energy." A lot of what's happening with solar panels is because of what China has done in terms of lowering [prices]. We can now see the same in terms of electric vehicles. They cost one-third to one-half as much as other electric vehicles. Therefore, globalization and cooperation are needed if we are to achieve energy targets by 2050. ”
High school girls help granny with scrap. Recently, in Xiantao, Hubei, Ye met a high school girl helping her grandmother get waste when she was out of school. Ye said that he was a child raised by his grandmother, and when he was a child, he felt a little embarrassed that his grandmother picked up waste, and now he will help his grandmother. It feels great to see this girl. Netizen: At the most sensitive age, she is shining generously.
Online writers have become a popular part-time job for the post-90s. Recently, according to the "2023-2024 Research Report on the Value of Online Literature Reading Platforms" released by the China Academy of Press and Publication, by the end of 2023, the number of online literature users in mainland China will reach 537 million, a year-on-year increase of 9%, and nearly half of Chinese netizens are online literature users. At the same time, the trend of younger online writing continues to deepen, and post-95 and post-00 writers have become the mainstay of the online literary industry, and even most writers are "slash youth" who write part-time. The wider background of the creators has made the focus of online works more diverse, professional and three-dimensional, and has also attracted the attention and resonance of more and more young readers.
The man's family received the body of a Russian when he died suddenly. Recently, Faraj, a 68-year-old Canadian man, died of a heart attack while on vacation in Cuba. The family spent $10,000 to bring it back, only to find that the body was not Faraj. Faraj was bald, but the body in the coffin was a Russian with thick hair and tattoos. Currently, the whereabouts of Faraj's body are unknown.
Weather in the capital: Beijing sunny, 12°C/27°C, south wind, air quality: good.
National weather: southeastern Heilongjiang, northeast Jilin, southeastern Tibet, southeastern Fujian, eastern Sichuan Basin, central and southern Guangdong, northeast Hainan Island, most of Taiwan Island and other places have moderate to heavy rain, among them, southeast Tibet, central and northern Taiwan Island and other places have heavy rain (50~90 mm) in some areas. There are 4~6 winds in some areas of northwest Inner Mongolia, southern Xinjiang, northern and southern Tibet, and western Qinghai, among them, there are 6~7 winds in some areas of the southern Xinjiang basin and 7~8 winds in some areas of northeast Inner Mongolia.