Accelerating legislation to ensure safety of high speed rail

High speed rail has brought great convenience to people's travel and has become a shining "national card". "The operation environment of high-speed rail is very important to ensure the safety of high-speed rail, which requires the participation and maintenance of all social parties." During the two sessions of the National People's Congress, reporters connected with many deputies from the railway system to call for accelerating the process of high-speed rail safety legislation and using the law to protect the safety of high-speed rail. "In recent years, the railway management system and operation mechanism have undergone profound changes, and the rapid development of high-speed railway technology has led to new contradictions and problems involving railway management, economy and social issues." Yang Weijun, deputy to the National People's Congress and Secretary of the Party committee and chairman of Lanzhou Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said that the relevant provisions of the current railway law can no longer meet the actual needs of the reform and development of the railway. Therefore, this year, he proposed to speed up the revision and improvement of the railway law. This is the third year in a row that Yang Weijun proposed to amend the railway law. For this reason, he went to the enterprise law, political law, road protection and related units for many times to investigate, and accumulated a lot of materials for the proposal and improvement. In recent years, in addition to the revision of the railway law, a number of deputies to the National People's Congress of the railway system have made suggestions to promote the local legislation of railway safety. Qian Chunyang, deputy to the National People's Congress and chief engineer of Guangzhou Railway Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. of China Railway Guangzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd., suggested that the relevant departments of the state actively promote the local legislation for the comprehensive treatment of the external environment of high-speed railway, urge the regions without legislation to come out as soon as possible, and strengthen the law enforcement inspection and law popularization propaganda in the regions that have already come out. At present, 13 provinces, districts and cities in China have formulated and issued local regulations and rules on railway safety management, including Guangdong and Guangxi, Liaoning, Fujian, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan. The idea of using legal means to protect the safety of high-speed rail also received positive response from the representatives outside the road. "What high-speed rail brings is the road to prosperity, and also the road to people's livelihood to facilitate people's travel." Ran Hui, deputy secretary of the Party branch and director of the village committee of tianshanpu village, Taohuayuan street, Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Youyang, Chongqing, a deputy to the National People's Congress, said that in some places, there are problems such as unauthorized construction and illegal construction along the high-speed railway, bringing hidden dangers to the operation safety of the high-speed railway and the personal safety of passengers. To this end, she suggested that the procuratorial organ should intervene in public interest litigation in time, and work with relevant departments to solve this problem, so as to ensure the safety of high-speed rail operation and make passengers travel more secure.