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Case review
On June 21, after the gas explosion at Fuyang Barbecue Restaurant in Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, the Yinchuan public security authorities, together with firefighting and other relevant departments, conducted overnight investigations, inquiries, and forensic examinations. The investigation found that the restaurant's head manager, Hai (deceased), and staff member Li Xiangxiang (deceased) violated safety management regulations by unauthorized replacement of the pressure reducing valve connected to the liquefied gas tank, causing rapid leakage of liquefied gas from the tank and triggering an explosion, resulting in the particularly severe consequences of 31 deaths and 7 injuries. The restaurant's legal representative, Ma Lin, actual controlling shareholders, Zhang Xianxian and Liu, and manager Suo Fufu, are suspected of major liability accident crimes. Currently, these four individuals have been criminally detained by public security authorities, and the case is under further investigation.

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《Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China》
Article 134, Paragraph 1
Whoever violates safety management regulations during production or operations, thereby causing a major accident with serious injuries or other severe consequences, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; if the circumstances are particularly egregious, the sentence shall be fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years.
 
 
[1] The author's perspective
The subjective aspect of this crime is negligence, meaning the actor should have foreseen that their actions might cause a major accident with serious injuries or other severe consequences but failed to do so due to carelessness, or foresaw it but lightly believed it could be avoided, leading to such results.
 
In practice, such crimes endangering production safety should be distinguished from other crimes endangering public safety by dangerous means, and the intent to violate rules in production and operations should not be indiscriminately regarded as intent to cause harmful consequences. This incident once again sounds an alarm for producers and operators, and also serves as a reminder for employees in actual operations to always keep safety first.