The State Council, China's highest governing body, is to launch a nationwide production safety check during the next two weeks.
A total of 14 teams will be dispatched to across the country, with the first team led by officials with the State Foreign Trade and Economic Commission set to start its work Wednesday.
The 14 teams will inspect production safety of the civil aviation sector, railways, the petro-chemical system, electric power, the military industry and the provinces of Guangdong, Shanxi, Hunan, Heilongjiang, Henan, Sichuan and Guizhou.
(People's Daily May 29, 2002)