Call for work safety probe after jet crash

A key meeting of the Communist Party of China on March 31 highlighted the need to draw lessons from the crash of the China Eastern Airlines jet 10 days earlier and called for a nationwide inspection of work safety to maximize efforts to prevent further accidents.

At the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, participants were briefed on the emergency response to the accident on March 21 involving China Eastern Flight MU5735, which crashed midflight, with 123 passengers and nine crew members aboard, into a mountainous area in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of

the Communist Party of China Central Committee, presided over the meeting. At a high-level meeting on March 28, Xi and other senior leaders observed a moment of silence for the crash victims.