China's top legislature on Tuesday reviewed a bill on revising the workplace safety law, in an attempt to close possible loopholes.
Fewer traffic accidents were reported in China in 2013 compared with the previous year, with no reports of extremely fatal traffic accidents, vice minister of public security Huang Ming said on Sunday.
Two road accidents involving three buses and a truck transporting timber left a total of 30 people dead and over 50 others injured over the weekend in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire's capital.
In the first half of this year the number of accidents and consequent deaths in China dropped 3.8 percent and 13.9 percent year on year respectively, but the situation remains serious, a safety official said Tuesday.
China's top work safety authority said on Friday that it has required local departments at all levels to strengthen the transparency of workplace accident investigations by making more information available to the public.
More than 700 officials have been under investigated for breach of duty related to workplace accidents in the first half of the year, the supreme procuratorate said Monday.
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