The National Mine Safety Administration held a video conference on the planning of coal mine supervision law enforcement and the advancement of supervisory work, aiming to further unify the approach to law enforcement planning, maximize consensus, and scientifically formulate and strictly implement the 2026 annual coal mine safety supervision administrative inspection and law enforcement plan. Zhang Ruiting, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the National Mine Safety Administration, attended and addressed the meeting.

The conference reported the main consensus formed during the review of annual law enforcement plans, based on discussions of feedback and suggestions from the Administration’s provincial-level bureaus. The provincial-level bureaus expressed their views and suggestions regarding questions and challenges in the planning and execution of law enforcement, focusing on practical issues such as the implementation of joint law enforcement, improving the quality and effectiveness of law enforcement, and enhancing system functionality. The National Mine Safety Administration responded to each issue in accordance with the principle of “taking all feasible suggestions,” promoting mutual understanding and coordination between levels.

The meeting emphasized the importance of law enforcement planning, requiring principal heads of provincial-level bureaus to fulfill their responsibilities as “first responsible persons,” personally organizing personnel to reanalyze, review, study, and deploy the annual coal mine law enforcement plans for their respective jurisdictions. Law enforcement plans should be scientifically and reasonably arranged, with precise risk assessment, scientific classification and grading, implementation of differentiated inspections, and careful balancing of “enterprise inspection” and “government supervision.” Law enforcement plans must be firmly and orderly executed, following the principle of “addressing hazards first, urgent issues before routine ones, and prioritizing key points before general matters,” ensuring “thorough preparation before inspections and safe departure upon completion.” The quality and effectiveness of law enforcement analysis must be comprehensively improved, with provincial-level bureaus conducting quarterly analyses of law enforcement, using data comparisons to deeply examine the underlying causes of trends and changes. Law enforcement supervision must be continuously strengthened, with supervisors being stringent and capable, physically present at sites when necessary, and providing reminders through discussions when required. Year-end and beginning-of-year safety prevention must be reinforced by drawing lessons from the Hong Kong Tai Po fire accident and the Kunming Nanning-Kunming high-speed railway accident. Efforts to implement the three-year action plan for addressing root causes of mine safety and the “Eight Hard Measures” must be integrated, urging coal mining enterprises to prevent problems before they occur, effectively eliminating safety vulnerabilities and supervisory blind spots, and making every effort to take the initiative in ensuring coal mine safety during the critical year-end period