SAWS vows to crack down on illegal production

BEIJING - China's top work safety watchdog promised on Tuesday more efforts in the second half of the year to crack down on illegal production and operation in a bid to improve safety at workplaces.

Huang Yi, spokesman of the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), said 53 severe worksite accidents occurred in China in the first seven months of this year and more than half of them were related to illegal production and operation.

In an online interview with www.gov.cn, Huang said the country plans to finish the installation of an emergency risk avoidance system at all its coalmines by 2013 to cut potential casualties.