On June 20, 2023 the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued the Three-Year Action Plan for Elevator Safety (2023-2025) (hereinafter referred to as "the Action Plan"). The purpose is to further improve the quality and safety level of elevators and ensuring that people can take the elevator safely. The Action Plan clearly puts forward key tasks such as centralized investigation and rectification of illegal elevator use, vigorous support for the renewal and transformation of old elevators, and improvement of emergency rescue capabilities.

The Action Plan mentioned that in recent years, China have been in a stable and positive situation in regards of elevator safety, but due to the continuous growth of elevator ownership, the rapid increase of old elevators leads to various potential risks and hidden dangers. There is still a gap between the elevator safety level and the people's increasing demand for safe and convenient elevators.

The main objectives of the Action Plan are:

·    Effectively clarify and strengthen main responsibility of elevator production and use units; rectify illegal elevator use; support the renewal and transformation of old elevators to build a solid foundation for elevator quality and safety.

·    Improve emergency rescue capabilities to achieve 100% coverage of emergency disposal service platform for passenger elevators.

·    Deepen reform and innovation, comprehensively promote the separation of inspection and testing; continuously improve the maintenance and repair mode;

·    Encourage eligible areas to build demonstration areas for elevator industrial cluster and brand; promote the high-quality development of the elevator sector so as to essentially improve the elevator quality and safety.

The Action Plan elaborates that:

·    Before the end of August 2023, each provincial government should have at least one prefecture-level city (or district of a municipality directly under the central government) that have built an elevator emergency disposal service platform (such as 96333). The platform should give play to the function of emergency coordination and command and doing a good job for safety guarantee.

·    By the end of December 2023, all provinces shall achieve full coverage of passenger elevator emergency handling service platforms in medium-sized cities and above.

·    By the end of December 2024, public services should be further enhanced for a full coverage of emergency handling service platform for the passenger elevator on provincial level. Emergency rescue service should be more intelligent. Further study should be carried on promoting the application of intelligent alarm models.

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