Cities embrace safety products as epidemic eases

Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Hefei in Anhui province, and a number of other Chinese cities have sewn up plans to develop safety-related industries over the 2021-25 period, which marks the 14th Five-Year Plan, said business leaders and academics.

Cities are eager to prevent risks associated with unsafe production processes and storage methods relating to industrial materials and gases, natural disasters and public health emergency situations, said Fan Weicheng, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and dean of the Institute of Public Safety Research at Tsinghua University.

"The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, to a certain extent, has advanced the society's actual understanding of the importance of safety," he said at the 2020 International Safety and Emergency Expo held from Sept 9 to Sept 11 in Hangzhou.