A publicity campaign on safety and emergency knowledge was carried out at Batang Community, Batang Town, Ningxiang City recently.
This activity is one of the major tasks of the Changsha Work Safety Commission Office. To build up emergency management and be close with people, the office designed a cartoon character “Little Du” as ambassador of emergency safety publicity in Changsha, whose name refers to eliminating risks at the beginning.

In the form of questions and answers, the host and “Little Du” introduced relevant laws and regulations of work safety, and common sense in terms of rural fire prevention in winter, safety use of electricity, gas and coal, disaster prevention and relief.  
The activity has improved safety awareness and enhanced their capability of self-rescue and mutual rescue. During the activity, “Little Du” actively interacted with villagers and sent gifts to them.

Winter is the peak season of heating. In rural areas, people usually use coal stoves for heating, but left-behind elderly and children have weak safety awareness and inadequate capability to rescue themselves and others, which lead to frequent accidents of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The activity expanded the coverage of safety publicity and education in rural areas, effectively improved safety awareness and safety risk-prevention ability of rural people, and further created a safe and stable social environment in rural areas.
Zhou Yifang, a resident of the community, said that she learned a lot about the knowledge of smoked bacon promoted in the activity. “These days my mother is smoking bacon, and the knowledge I learned today is particularly practical. I will remind my mother to pay attention to safety.”

Li Xuehong was very excited about answering several questions. “I did not put safety awareness in mind before, because I always thought that nothing big would happen. Through today's activity, I realize that the danger is around us and we should be careful.”

In recent years, Changsha Work Safety Commission Office and the Emergency Management Bureau have implemented the Three-year Action Plan of National Work Safety Special Rectification, and made unified arrangements for safety publicity work under the new situation. 

Efforts have been made to increase publicity in rural areas, seek to include safety publicity in major work of villages, give full play to the leading role of village cadres and guide villagers to carry out safety publicity activities in accordance with local conditions, contributing to safety defense, construction of beautiful countryside and rural revitalization.