Industrial accidents: Challenges for China's economic and social development

This paper has made statistical analysis of industrial accidents in recent years in China, compared them with those in some other countries, and analyzed the relationship between industrial accidents in enterprises and economic development. Since coalmine accidents take up the largest percentage in industrial accidents, analysis has also been made on the type and distribution of them, and comparative research made among industrial accidents, metal and non-metal mine accidents. This paper has also probed the relationship between the main causes of industrial accidents and China's economic development, and discussed how to prevent industrial accidents.