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　　safety and environmental governance along the railway has achieved remarkable results

　　□ Our reporter Xu Wei

　　□ The reporter's trainee reporter Liu Xin

　　The "2020 Railway Statistics Bulletin" recently released by the National Railway Administration shows that in 2020, the national railway passenger transport will gradually resume, the freight transport will continue to grow, and the railway network will continue to expand. The national railway operating mileage will reach 146,300 kilometers, of which high-speed railways will reach 38,000 kilometers. .

　　Railway is the main artery of the national economy, key infrastructure and major livelihood projects. Railway safety is related to national security and the safety of people's lives and property.

With the accelerated construction of railways, high-speed, heavy-load, and high-density operation, railway traffic accidents, equipment failures and hidden dangers of train operation safety caused by environmental factors along the railway have received increasing attention, and the need for governance has become more urgent.

Promoting the improvement of the safety and environment along the railway is an inevitable requirement for promoting the high-quality and safe development of railways, as well as a practical need to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

　　Recently, many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have successively issued railway safety regulations and regulations, and coordinated and governed by multiple departments, established mechanisms to carry out investigation and remediation work, and achieved good results in the management of safety and environment along the railway.

At present, 460 prefectural and municipal governments across the country have established working contact mechanisms with railways, and 22 provinces have issued railway safety laws and regulations.

　　Investigate and rectify hidden railway safety hazards

　　The reporter learned that the types of problems that threaten the environmental safety along the railway line are diverse, covering a wide range, and are characterized by difficulty in remediation, easy repetition, and high cost.

For example, setting fire to wasteland along the railway line, stocking livestock, illegal sewage discharge (dumping garbage), unauthorized use of light and floating objects such as dust-proof nets or sunshade nets, unauthorized construction of illegal buildings, walking and sitting on the railway, etc., these behaviors are very easy to cause safety The management of hidden dangers requires the joint efforts of multiple departments.

　　Last year, the National Railway Administration and other departments issued the "Three-year Action Plan Implementation Plan for the Special Improvement of Railway Safety Production", which clearly pointed out that the special environmental safety improvement along the railway will be carried out to prevent the risk of floating objects and dangerous trees, mountains and slopes along the railway. Conduct centralized rectification of illegal activities in the railway line safety protection zone and flammable and explosive dangerous goods sites along the railway line, comprehensively establish railway line safety protection zones, improve the long-term working mechanism of environmental safety supervision along the railway line, and implement environmental safety management along the railway line. Responsibilities, investigate and deal with violations of laws and regulations in accordance with laws and regulations.

　　Yan Hexiang, chief engineer and spokesperson of the National Railway Administration, pointed out that the National Railway Administration, in conjunction with relevant ministries and commissions, local people's governments at all levels along the railway, and railway transportation companies, highlight the problem orientation, work together, and focus on the investigation and remediation of hidden dangers in the safety and environment along the railway. The three-year special rectification of railway safety has been steadily promoted, and good results have been achieved.

　　Statistics show that in 2020, the number of accidents caused by environmental factors on national railways dropped by 27.4% compared with the previous year, and the number of deaths from off-road accidents dropped by 14.5%.

　　Yan Hexiang introduced that local governments at all levels and railway transportation companies have implemented road-ground linkages to identify nearly 210,000 potential safety hazards along the railway, and establish two lists of hidden hazards and rectification responsibilities (hereinafter referred to as the "two lists"), level by level. The item clarifies the main body, measures, and time limit of the rectification, and promotes the rectification of hidden dangers.

Up to now, more than 60,000 hidden safety hazards along the high-speed railway and 144,000 problems along the general-speed railway have been eliminated across the country.

Some provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have carried out special inspections on the safety and environment along the railway to effectively prevent problems from rebounding and recurring.

　　Substantial progress in local legislation

　　Maintaining the safety environment along the railway is not only an internal matter of the railway system, but also requires the joint efforts of government departments and the society along the railway, and it is inseparable from the support and protection of relevant laws.

　　It is reported that a number of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have recently issued local laws and regulations regulating railway safety management, and some of them have been formally implemented.

On February 1, the "Regulations on Railway Safety Management of Liaoning Province" was officially implemented; on March 1, the "Regulations on Railway Safety Management of Shanghai Municipality" was officially implemented.

Through the unremitting efforts of all parties, substantive progress has been made in local legislation on railway safety. As of the end of April, 22 provinces have issued railway safety laws and regulations.

　　Yan Hexiang said that other provinces are advancing the legislative process, some are about to be promulgated, related work procedures and mechanisms are gradually improved, and a new situation of standardization and legalization of the safety and environmental governance along the railway has gradually formed.

　　In February of this year, the State Railway Administration, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Implementation of the "Double Section" System for Safety and Environmental Management Along Railways." Before the end of June 2008, the "double-segment" system will be established and improved in an all-round way.

　　It is understood that the "sections" of the "double-section length" refer to the "sections" along the railway. Each section of the high-speed rail line has a "railway section length" and a "local section length", which are jointly responsible for the internal and external safety of the high-speed rail line.

The "dual section length" system coordinates and integrates the forces of all parties, and effectively promotes the safety and environmental supervision and comprehensive improvement work along the railway.

　　At present, some provinces clearly stipulate the establishment of a "dual-segment" system in local regulations. For example, Article 10 of the "Shandong Railway Safety Management Regulations" stipulates that the people's governments of cities, counties (cities, districts) and railway transportation along the railway line Enterprises should establish a “dual section long” working mechanism for roads and land, improve the work system, and jointly undertake the work of organizing inspections and coordinating consultations, and timely investigating and disposing of problems and hidden dangers that affect railway safety.

　　Improve long-term safety governance mechanism

　　In January of this year, the inter-ministerial joint conference system for safety and environmental governance along the railway, which is led by the Ministry of Transport and is specifically responsible for the National Railway Administration, and composed of 12 relevant departments and units, was approved and established by the State Council. It is now in normal operation.

　　It is reported that the joint meeting is mainly responsible for analyzing and judging the safety and environmental situation along the railway, studying and improving relevant laws and regulations, planning standards, policy measures, etc., coordinating and solving the universal, long-term, and policy issues affecting the safety environment along the railway, and establishing and improving safety along the railway. Long-term environmental governance mechanism; guide and promote the implementation of responsibilities by relevant parties, and conscientiously do a good job in the safety and environmental governance along the railway.

　　Previously, the inter-ministerial joint meeting on safety and environmental governance along the railway pointed out that the current safety and environmental governance along the railway has achieved significant results, but there are still many problems.

It is necessary to take further responsibility, perform duties and responsibilities, and steadily promote the deepening and solidification of the safety and environmental governance along the railway.

It is necessary to continuously improve the working mechanism, strengthen overall coordination, and consolidate the responsibilities of all parties; adhere to the problem orientation, strengthen the management of hidden dangers, and make every effort to tackle outstanding problems; continue dynamic management and strengthen long-term supervision; strengthen work guarantees to form a joint governance force; earnestly implement safety The deployment and requirements of China's construction.

　　"In order to effectively maintain the safety environment along the railway, the next step is to earnestly implement the inter-ministerial joint conference system for safety and environmental governance along the railway, improve the railway safety management mechanism of departmental coordination and road-ground linkage, fully implement the'dual section long' system, and accelerate the advancement of the railway Safe local legislation, solve the source problems that affect the safety environment of the railway, strive to build the railway into a safe line, a standard line, and a scenic line, better promote the construction of a safe China, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security." Yan Hexiang said.