How do electric bicycles "walk steadily and farther"
The supervision of production and sales links should be strengthened. Urban construction and fire protection departments need to form a joint effort to establish a corresponding modern governance system and mechanism.
□ Our reporter Zhao Jie
Recently, the People’s Procuratorate of Tongzhou District, Beijing City, after reviewing according to law, made a decision to approve the arrest of Zhang on suspicion of fire.
Zhang Moumou was a tenant of a community in Tongzhou. In the early morning of September 20, he brought the electric bicycle battery into the room to charge and caused a fire, killing 5 people.
According to data released by the Fire and Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of Emergency Management, there are about 2,000 fires related to electric bicycles in the country every year.
In addition, electric bicycles still have problems such as unauthorized modification to increase speed and illegal driving, which also bring many safety hazards to the society and become an examination question for social governance.
There are many hidden dangers and various accidents frequently occur
Authoritative data shows that 80% of fire accidents caused by electric bicycles are related to batteries.
A reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily" found out that there are many situations in which fires are caused by batteries: overcharging, the battery capacity does not match the design of the electric bicycle, and the battery design is placed in an unreasonable location.
Some aging or unqualified and substandard electric vehicle batteries are not only easy to catch fire when charging, but also extremely risky during driving.
On the afternoon of September 23, in the north to south direction of Youanmennei Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, an electric bicycle suddenly smoked from its battery while driving. Accompanied by the sound of an explosion, fragments of the body were scattered on the surrounding ground.
Fire rescue personnel rushed to the scene to extinguish the flames, but the electric bicycle was burned to the point that only a skeleton was left.
In addition to fire accidents caused by batteries, some electric bicycles have been modified privately to increase speed, or electric bicycle cyclists have a weak traffic safety awareness, and various illegal behaviors such as retrograde, red light running, and motorway driving have also become prominent problems that endanger public safety. .
In November 2020, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau investigated and dealt with a batch of illegally modified electric bicycles with a maximum speed of 165 kilometers per hour in a special law enforcement operation. The speeds were faster than motor vehicles, which was frightening.
E-bike cyclists illegally drive, leading to frequent traffic accidents, and it has become one of the focuses of the traffic control department in recent years.
In Beijing, the illegal behaviors of electric bicycle cyclists, such as occupying roads, running lights, and not wearing helmets, have become one of the important tasks for traffic police to investigate and deal with traffic violations.
Data shows that from May to July 2019, Beijing penalized more than 230,000 illegal behaviors of electric bicycles such as retrograde, running red lights, and walking on motor lanes, an average of about 3,000 per day.
Since March this year, the Guangzhou Traffic Police has investigated and dealt with 301,000 cases of traffic violations involving electric bicycles.
Although the Guangzhou traffic control department has been strengthening its efforts to rectify electric bicycle traffic violations, the following set of data still cannot be ignored: In the first half of this year, there were 189 electric bicycle traffic accidents in Guangzhou, with 24 deaths, an increase of 56.2% and 14.29% year-on-year respectively. .
Measures are introduced intensively and governance is strengthened
According to statistics from authoritative departments, the social ownership of electric bicycles in my country is about 300 million, and electric bicycles have become an important means of transportation for the public.
In response to problems such as many electric bicycle users and many hidden safety hazards, in recent years, relevant national ministries and commissions and various parts of the country have adopted various measures to continuously strengthen governance.
Since April 15, 2019, my country's new mandatory national standard for electric bicycles "E-bike Safety Technical Specifications" has been formally implemented.
In order to implement the new standards, the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Public Security jointly issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Implementation and Supervision of the National Standards for Electric Bicycles", which involves the production, sales, registration, passage, lease operation, and parking of electric bicycles. And use all aspects.
From August 1 this year, the "Regulations on Fire Safety Management of High-Rise Civil Buildings" issued by the Ministry of Emergency Management came into effect, clearly stipulating that "It is forbidden to park electric bicycles or electric bicycles in the public halls, evacuation walkways, stairwells, and safety exits of high-rise civil buildings. Charge".
The promulgation of these regulations, standards and opinions has played a positive role in regulating the production, sales, circulation and use of electric bicycles and improving the product quality and safety performance of electric bicycles.
At the same time, regulations and measures related to electric bicycles have sprung up throughout the country.
To ensure traffic safety, resolutely remove substandard electric bicycles from the road.
Since November 1 this year, the Beijing Traffic Police has detained the electric bicycles that exceed the standard on the road after the transition period is over, and imposed a fine of 1,000 yuan on the driver; and the maximum fine of 1,000 yuan for illegal acts such as "fixing and refitting".
In order to strengthen the standardized management of electric bicycles, as early as 2019, Tianjin Municipality stipulated in the "Tianjin Community Property Management Measures" that it is necessary to do a good job in site selection, construction, and funding preparation for centralized parking sites for community electric bicycles.
In Hongqiao District of Tianjin City, the community party organization led by the community to help the community solve the "difficulty" of electric bicycle charging piles into the community has achieved initial results.
In an interview with reporters, Chen Kai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Heyuanjiayuan Community, Hongqiao District, Tianjin, said that under the coordination of the community party committee, the site selection and construction of the carport for electric bicycle charging was successfully completed. The electric power department also installed electric meters for the convenient carport. , And provide residents with cheaper "affordable electricity."
In order to curb the risk of fire caused by electric bicycle charging, the newly revised "Shanghai Non-motor Vehicle Safety Management Regulations" stipulate that electric bicycles are prohibited from "going upstairs" from May 1 this year.
Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, explores the use of smart governance to regulate electric bicycles "charging + parking", and strives to eliminate potential safety hazards from the source.
In accordance with the "smart +" management model, Jinjiang District has carried out intelligent transformation of the electric bicycle shed, realizing functions such as centralized management, card access, mobile phone-related timing charging and power failure, and fault alarm.
In addition, some communities in Guiyang, Guizhou, Wuhu, Anhui, and Weifang, Shandong have installed electric bicycle blocking induction systems in elevators to effectively reduce potential safety hazards.
All parties work together to strengthen supervision in multiple links
In view of the various hidden safety hazards of electric bicycles, although many measures have been introduced in various places, safety accidents of electric bicycles still occur from time to time.
How to strengthen the supervision of electric bicycles to curb the occurrence of various safety accidents?
The reporter interviewed a number of relevant experts.
Lin Hongchao, director of the Emergency Management Law and Policy Research Base of China University of Political Science and Law, told reporters: "At present, our administrative law enforcement officers are more of the supervision of electric bicycle users, but it is difficult to have good results just to strengthen supervision on the end of the use. I am afraid. It is believed that the supervision of electric bicycles should be started from the source. In other words, supervision of production and sales should be strengthened."
Sun Kuanping, secretary-general of the Institute of Urban Governance, Peking University, proposed that the safety management of electric bicycles should address both the symptoms and the root cause.
From a fundamental perspective, it is necessary to fully consider the masses’ demand for private financial custody and timely and convenient charging. At the same time, it is necessary to promote various residential communities through multi-party consultations such as property companies, neighborhood committees, and residents’ representatives to provide nearby centralized storage and charging of electric bicycles. Convenience, which requires the joint efforts of urban construction, fire protection, traffic management and other departments.
Fu Changbo, director of the Social Governance and Public Communication Research Center of Beijing Normal University, replied to the reporter’s question of "How to integrate electric bicycle governance into grassroots social governance". It is the grassroots governance innovation that relies on the participation of multiple subjects.
He suggested that the power of residents’ autonomous organizations, various insurance companies, electric vehicle industry associations and other entities should be used to enhance community residents’ awareness of dangerous behaviors such as overdue service of electric bicycles and household charging, and to prevent illegal modification of batteries and the listing of fake and inferior batteries. Sales; the role of portals, social media platforms, WeChat group public service advertisements and other media should be fully utilized, and the mandatory management regulations issued by various localities should be continuously disseminated, so that compliance with traffic laws and prohibition of electric bicycles from entering households become a common understanding.
Ma Sheqiang, a professor at the People’s Public Security University of China, also put forward suggestions from the perspective of social governance: “To manage the safety of electric bicycles, it is necessary to establish a modern governance system and mechanism that is compatible with society, and build the product certification, production, sales, registration, access, and transportation of electric bicycles. Long-term mechanism and coordinated governance such as parking and use should not only give play to the functions of organization management, comprehensive coordination, supervision and inspection of relevant government departments, but also encourage the active participation of industry associations, enterprises and institutions, and social forces, and give full play to the streets and communities Only in this way can the enthusiasm and initiative of social management and autonomous management of other subjects be able to guarantee the stability and long-term development of electric bicycles."
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