On the morning of October 23th, Zhu Jian, the vice secretary municipal committee of the CPC and mayor held the video scheduling on citywide forest fire prevention and extinguishing. He underlined that the departments concerned are urged to promote the work of forest fire prevention with practicality and particularity by means of the highest stance, firmest attitude, strongest measures and fastest reactions as a result of implementing important requirements of the 20th National Congress of the CPC on promoting the modernization of national security system and capabilities. At the meeting, Hu Feng, chief engineer of the provincial Forestry Bureau, and Luo Delong, deputy director of the provincial Emergency Management Department, fully affirmed the achievements made in promoting forest fire prevention and made suggestions on Hengyang's further work of the forest fire.

Zhu Jian pointed out that at present the risk of forest fire is continuously high and the people's governments of all counties and urban areas, the relevant departments directly under the city government must lift a higher political level, understand the spirits of instructions and  documents from provincial and municipal leaders on the work of forest fire prevention, erase the passive spirits and lax thoughts, adhere to the responsibility of land-guarding, keep a close eye on the safety protection and those intensive areas and crowds, eliminate risks in the bud and firmly guard the baseline of forest fire prevention work.

Also, he emphasized that the forest fire prevention work is still unbalanced and inadequate on the aspect of the implementation of responsibility. It is the frequent forest fire hazard that is poorly contained in some counties and rekindled after extinguishing. Departments at all levels ought to integrate the management of the forest fire prevention work with implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC, profoundly reflect and check as well as rectifying and reforming the hazard, in accordance with the requirements of further strict system-constructing, responsibility-implementing, work-supervising and accountability, make sure the implementation of every step of the work, going all out for forest fire prevention.

Besides, Zhu stressed that the top leads of counties and urban districts need to insist on guiding people separately, doing in-depth survey of the forefront areas, finding out the fundamental management of forest fire prevention work in rural areas and grass roots, dividing the "sureness town" and “hazardous town" related to forest fire scientifically, figuring out the key point of supervision and improving the efficiency.

Municipal Standing Committee and Vice Mayor, Huang Li, Secretary General of the municipal government Liao Yizhi participated.

Translator: Jing