BEIJING (Xinhua/Internews): Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts to treat those who were injured in a car ramming incident in Zhuhai City, south China’s Guangdong Province.
In an instruction on the case, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, demanded the perpetrator be severely punished according to the law.
The incident occurred in a sports center in Zhuhai, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 others.Xi urged all localities and relevant authorities to draw lessons from the case, and to strengthen their prevention and control of risks at the source.
He also emphasized the importance of resolving disputes in time, preventing the occurrence of extreme cases, and making every effort to safeguard the security of people’s lives and social stability.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for appropriately handling the aftermath of the incident, swiftly investigating into the case and severely punishing the perpetrator in accordance with the law.
Li, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, urged coordinated risk prevention and control efforts to ensure social stability.Following Xi’s instruction, China’s central authorities have dispatched a team to oversee the handling of the case.
Meanwhile, A seminar on the study and implementation of the important remarks that Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has made about work related to urban development and governance was held in Shanghai on Tuesday.
Li Shulei, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Chen Jining, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPC, attended and addressed the seminar. Both Li and Chen are members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core has planned major city development strategies and implemented a series of related measures, blazing a path for urban progress with Chinese characteristics, according to experts who attended the seminar.
The experts underscored the importance of upholding the principle that cities should be built by the people and for the people. They also proposed deepened reforms in urban development, management and governance as well as a higher level of openness of cities.
Efforts should be made to jointly build harmonious and attractive cities, they said, adding that cities’ cultural heritages should be protected and carried on.
