BEIJING: China has experienced significant drops in casualties from workplace accidents and natural disasters since 2018, said Wang Xiangxi, minister of emergency management, on Thursday.
The number of workplace accidents across the country from 2018 to 2022 went down by 80.8 percent from that in the previous five years, he told a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office. As to casualties, the decrease stood at 51.4 percent.
The number of people left dead or missing in natural disasters in the past five years declined by about 54.3 percent from the previous five years, he said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
