en.Wedoany.com Reported - China's National Mine Safety Administration (NMSA) announced at a regular press conference for the first quarter of 2026, held in Beijing on April 10, 2026, that in 2025, it conducted national mine safety inspections targeting the provincial people's governments and their relevant departments in 12 provinces, including Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Fujian, Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Gansu, and Qinghai. This operation marks the first time since the agency's establishment in 2020 that it has specifically carried out such inspections at the provincial government level.
Cai Wencheng, Deputy Director of the Coal Mine Safety Supervision Department of China's National Mine Safety Administration, introduced at the press conference that this special inspection covering 12 provincial-level administrative regions identified a total of 560 issues at the government level and 928 hidden dangers at the enterprise level. As follow-up rectification measures, the administration has delivered "Letters of Recommendation for Improving and Strengthening Mine Safety Supervision Work" to each province one by one and issued a circular to all mining-related provinces nationwide, urging local authorities to systematically address the identified problems.
It was reported that this special inspection was carried out with the approval of the central government, against the policy backdrop of China's efforts to combat formalism to reduce burdens on grassroots units and to standardize and coordinate inspection, assessment, and evaluation work. Cai Wencheng stated that through this inspection, a number of blind spots and dead ends in mine safety supervision were accurately eliminated, effectively resolving long-standing issues in multiple regions related to cross-departmental coordination, such as management of the mineral resources industry and cracking down on illegal mining, which involved problems of broken, twisted, or missing links in the chain. The inspection action further consolidated supervisory responsibilities in the field of mine safety production and rectified prominent issues in some areas, such as the gradual attenuation of responsibility implementation and insufficient quality in task execution.
The successful execution of this special inspection has laid a factual foundation for the successful conclusion of China's Three-Year Action for Fundamental Improvement and Breakthrough in Mine Safety Production and for a good start to the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan" for mine safety production. China's National Mine Safety Administration was renamed and established in 2020 from the former National Coal Mine Safety Administration. It is a deputy ministerial-level national agency under China's Ministry of Emergency Management, responsible for national mine safety supervision work.
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