On November 9, Shanxi Governor Lu Dongliang chaired an executive meeting of the provincial government to carry out requirements set by the provincial Party committee. The meeting considered work safety and other priority tasks around the end of the year and the start of the next, along with compensation for ecological and environmental damage.
The meeting said the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important statements on work safety should be studied and implemented, and the provincial Party committee’s requirements carried out. It called for better coordination of development and safety, solid work on key tasks at the turn of the year, sound planning of next year’s goals and tasks, and an all-out effort to keep economic performance improving.
It said the painful lessons of a building fire in Liuxiang Subdistrict, Yingze District, Taiyuan, should be learned in depth. Treatment of the injured, follow-up arrangements and the accident investigation should all be pursued fully. Broader lessons should be used to inspect and address fire-safety hazards in high-rise buildings, mixed-use premises and crowded places. The meeting also called for continued action against major fire risks and for winter forest and grassland fire prevention and suppression, stricter safety responsibility, more detailed supervision, and firm efforts to prevent major and especially serious accidents.
On energy, it said the province must shoulder the political responsibility of ensuring supply, promote safe and stable coal production and orderly output increases, and advance a coordinated layout of new-energy development and advanced energy-intensive industries, so energy and resource advantages are turned more quickly into industrial strengths.
The meeting also called for stronger planning and construction of “six networks” projects, multiple measures to expand effective investment, continued improvement in the supply of goods and services for consumption, and attention to key livelihood matters of public concern. It said safety and stability work should be done solidly across sectors, risks in key areas prevented and resolved, and the bottom line of safe development held.
The meeting heard a report on ecological and environmental damage compensation in Shanxi. It described the compensation system as a major reform measure established by the Party Central Committee and stressed control at the source, with local authorities taking the lead. It said focus should remain on illegal mining, illegal disposal of solid waste, road transport of hazardous chemicals and other priority areas, with stronger coordination among parties, better case handling, a full-process closed-loop management mechanism, compensation liabilities carried out and damaged ecosystems effectively restored, as support for building a “beautiful Shanxi.”
The meeting adopted the draft Measures for the Administration of Tour Guide Personnel of Shanxi Province and decided to issue and implement them by order of the provincial government. Other matters were also discussed.
Original report: The Paper, published November 11, 2026.
