【Safety Review】Reviewing the Quality and Safety Responsibility from the Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway Incident

“Through 6 provinces and districts, Dianchi Lake, Huangguoshu Waterfall, Huajiang Grand Canyon, Pingba Tiantai Mountain, Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, West Lake and other people’s sights are on the horizon. At the same time, 5 of China's top ten cultural buildings are strung together .” When the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed rail was opened, the media said. However, less than a year later, the high-speed rail Guizhou section of the Shanghai-Kunming Expressway found hidden dangers in construction quality. According to media reports, a report from the China Railway Corporation on the handling of quality problems in the high-speed rail Guizhou section of the Shanghai-Kunming Railway (hereinafter referred to as "The Bulletin" stated that there was a problem of cutting corners and building construction quality in the individual tunnels of the high-speed rail Guizhou section of Shanghai-Kunming railway that had been in operation for less than one year.

As we all know, the China High Speed ​​Rail is a new business card made in China and is ranked first among China’s “four new inventions” selected by youth from more than 20 countries along the “Belt and Road .” Now, this high-speed railway that goes out of the country and becomes the most beautiful “national business card” on the “Belt and Road” is a major project that affects the lives and safety of the people. There are actually “bean curd slags” and major quality and safety issues. No wonder news reports come out. Both traditional media and social media suddenly exploded. Xinhua News Agency and CCTV have issued comments, saying that the high-speed rail quality issues do not leave the slightest feelings, the Chinese high-speed rail does not allow the mouse to do anything; netizens also have online message, requiring the responsible person to "punish without credit."

Indeed, the quality of China's high-speed rail represents the level of Chinese manufacturing and it is related to the country's image. After years of development and accumulation, China’s high-speed rail has gradually grown into a “gold card” for high-end equipment technology in China. Its quality depends on quality and safety. Now, the high-speed rails that are proud of the people are actually having problems with the most proud quality and safety. It's no wonder that the entire society has a “criticism” and “accountability” voice. China's high-speed rail is not allowed to be so embarrassed!

According to media reports, the "Notification" pointed out the problems existing in construction units, supervision units, design units, third-party testing units, and construction units; it also gave the corresponding treatment advice, that is, stop accepting bids for responsible units. , Corporate credit downgrade, demerit points, bear economic losses and other penalties. Among them, China Railway 20th Bureau and China Railway 23rd Bureau stopped accepting construction bids for large- and medium-sized railway construction projects within one year. The company’s credit rating was directly rated as C , and 90% of the direct economic losses of the corresponding quality problems were assumed ; China Railway 12th Bureau corporate credit rating of deducted 2 points; stop Railway hospital Railway company to participate in projects designed to meet the qualifications of the bidders four times; the Shanxi Sanjiang engineering testing company removed from the railway construction market. Units in building, the Shanghai-Kunming passenger dedicated company in Guizhou In addition to the above problems found during the checks, there is a central "self-propelled" patrol noted your wide high-speed rail 3 at trial work according to the specified public bidding problems, above all the problems into the 2017 annual railway The company's construction management assessment had a 47- point deduction for the Guizhou company of the Shanghai-Kunming special guest .

Regarding this “penalty ticket”, both the netizens and the media do not seem to “buy it”. Most people think that such “penalties” are light, but from the standpoint of General Iron’s position, such handling opinions are given according to law. From this point of view, the quality and safety incidents of the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed rail also exposed a long-standing problem of “scissors” in China's quality and safety responsibility field, which means that the illegal cost is low.

Quality is the foundation and safety is the bottom line. Quality and safety are not only the fundamental and bottom line of such major projects as high-speed rail and important equipment manufacturing, but also the basic rights and interests guarantees and bottom line requirements of the broad masses of the people and consumers. From the quality and safety issues of important projects such as the “building” and the “bridge crunchy” that people hated, to the fake and shoddy products that have been banned for many times, besides the practical reasons such as the sense of responsibility and the level of manufacturing, the illegal costs have been low. Seen as one of the important reasons for quality safety incidents.

We may compare the results of the handling of quality violations between China and the United States. In the case of Volkswagen’s exhaust fraud, the cumulative penalty paid by Volkswagen in the United States for “emissions gates” exceeded US$ 24 billion, creating a new record; in the case of the Volkswagen Sagitar “breaking axis gate” incident in China, There are huge tickets. In addition, British oil company BP leaked oil in the Gulf of Mexico causing environmental pollution and was fined six billion U.S. dollars. ConocoPhillips' fine in the Bohai Sea was only fined 300,000 yuan because of China’s Environmental Protection Law. The maximum fine is 300,000 yuan. It can be seen from this that there are huge differences between China and the United States in terms of the concept of quality law enforcement, legal basis, and penalties. It also reflects the huge deviation of illegal costs.

In many major quality safety incidents and accidents, the reasons for the surface may be responsible for failures to implement, inadequate system construction, imperfect quality management, and insufficient manufacturing levels. However, a deep-seated reason is driven by interests, especially the economy. Benefits, such as the quality and safety problems exposed by the Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, the reason why the whole chain of construction units, supervision units, design units, third-party testing units, and construction units dared to cut corners and cut down materials was the key to achieving a huge return on economic benefits. If quality violations can be severely punished economically and their illegal gains are far from penalties, it is believed that counterfeiting and inferiority can be achieved, and the overall quality level of China will also be “effective.” The sesame blossoms are knotted high."

This article is from China Quality Network.