China News Service, Inner Mongolia, February 23 (Reporter Li Aiping) The rescue headquarters of the large-scale collapse of the open-pit coal mine of Xinjing Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Alxa Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia held a press conference on the 23rd. It was reported at the meeting that on February 22, 2023 At 13:12, the side slope of the west mining area of ​​the coal mine of Inner Mongolia Xinjing Coal Industry Co., Ltd. under the jurisdiction of the Twinjingtan Ecological Immigration Demonstration Area of ​​the Alxa League collapsed, causing many workers and vehicles to be buried on the site.

After verification, 59 people lost contact. As of 11:00 am on February 23, 9 people have been rescued, 6 people have been sent to Qingtongxia City Hospital for emergency treatment (1 seriously injured, 5 slightly injured), and 3 people have no vital signs. 50 people are still missing.

　　After the accident, the autonomous region quickly launched an emergency plan, established an emergency response headquarters, implemented escalated command, unified dispatch, and mobilized rescue forces.

Starting from the afternoon of the 22nd, rescue experts appointed by the National Emergency Management Department, as well as support forces, expert teams, professional teams, and medical resources from brother provinces, autonomous regions, and autonomous regions arrived at the rescue site one after another.

As of 11 o'clock on the 23rd, 156 rescue equipment and vehicles have been dispatched, 19 rescue teams, 919 rescue personnel, and 19 safety production experts are in place.

In the rescue and disposal work, we made every effort to overcome difficulties such as the large collapse area and the hidden dangers of secondary disasters, organized experts to conduct on-site surveys and assessments, optimized the rescue plan, carried out vital sign detection, collapsed earthwork removal, and expansion of the working surface, and closely monitored the slope Displacement changes to ensure scientific rescue and safe rescue.

At present, the rescue and disposal work is progressing in an orderly manner.

　　While rushing to rescue, 15 ambulances and 45 medical personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene to treat and transfer the wounded, and coordinated with the nearby Qingtongxia People's Hospital to open a green channel for medical treatment to do their best to treat the wounded.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, experts from the National Emergency Medical Rescue Team dispatched by the National Health and Medical Commission arrived at the Xinjing Coal Mine. Together with the medical staff of the hospital, they formed a medical treatment expert group to formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan for each person. Carry out rescue work.

As of 11 o'clock on the 23rd, the vital signs of one seriously injured person were stable, and the five slightly injured people were in good condition.

　　In terms of aftermath, the information of the missing persons and their relatives has been sorted out in detail, and special staff members have been assigned to form a special work team. According to the principle of one family for one team, the work of comfort and resettlement has been done actively and steadily.

The specific cause of the slope collapse is under further investigation. The public security organs have intervened in the investigation and the relevant personnel have controlled it. The investigation results will be announced in due course.

　　In the next step, we will go all out to do a good job in personnel search and rescue, wounded treatment, accident disposal and aftermath treatment.

We must do our best to search and rescue the missing persons as quickly as possible, prepare sufficient personnel and rescue equipment, and race against the clock to do a good job in rescue and disposal.

Continue to strengthen on-site early warning monitoring and safety protection to prevent secondary disasters.

Make every effort to deal with the aftermath, patiently and meticulously do a good job of psychological counseling and comfort for the families of the missing persons, and speed up the investigation of the cause, release information in a timely and accurate manner, and actively respond to social concerns.

Learning lessons and drawing inferences from one instance, we are carrying out a large-scale investigation and rectification of safety production in the whole region, and do a good job in safety production in all fields of the region.