BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts to search for people who are still unaccounted for and save the injured after an explosion at a fireworks plant in central China's Hunan Province caused heavy casualties on Monday afternoon.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made an instruction ordering strengthened risk screening and hazard control in key sectors, enhanced public safety management, and efforts to safeguard people's lives and property.
The explosion occurred at around 4:40 p.m. at the plant in Liuyang, a county-level city under Changsha, capital city of Hunan. Enditem
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