The Ministry of Transport held a meeting of the Ministry's Safety Committee and a video conference on transportation safety production.

On December 25th, the Ministry of Transport held a full meeting of the Ministry's safety committee and a video conference on transportation safety production. The meeting emphasized that in order to do a good job in transportation safety production in 2026, we must adhere to both treating the symptoms and root causes, prevention as the main focus, and treating the symptoms as a priority. We must emphasize "taking both prevention and control measures" in order to effectively prevent the occurrence of major accidents, achieve a significant and sustained decrease in minor accidents and moderate accidents, and ensure that the safety production situation in the industry continues to steadily improve. We must focus on "major key areas," which includes addressing significant risks and hidden dangers, improving hierarchical training mechanisms, dispatch verification mechanisms, incentive constraints, controlling major sources of accidents, improving the online and offline safety supervision system, strictly controlling escalated management during holidays, enhancing safety precautions during key periods, strengthening duty shifts, consultation dispatches, and ensuring safety for major events, as well as tackling outstanding issues in key areas, focusing on addressing 7 prominent issues related to bridges and water, and concentrating efforts on rectification. We must also focus on proactive defense against extreme weather events, emphasizing early warning and prevention as the main strategies, remembering the six-word mantra of "response, inspection, control," detailing implementation plans, enhancing all-staff training, and strictly implementing responsibilities. We must also enhance the fundamental safety capabilities, improve the intelligent control ability of safety production, equipment resilience, and safety literacy of practitioners, and enhance safety production system standards. We must strengthen safety supervision in key areas, enforce safety responsibilities of key enterprises, and deepen governance on key issues. We must also enhance emergency response systems and capacity building, improve emergency response plans, enhance emergency response and support capabilities, and strengthen maritime search and rescue capabilities.