Review of the incident:

March 13

An employee claiming to be a key material supplier for Xi’an Metro Line 3 “deep throated” the news. The cables provided by suppliers for subway construction are all cut corners and all indicators do not meet subway construction standards, thus posing major safety risks.

March 15

Shaanxi Okai Cable Co., Ltd., the company involved, issued a statement in response saying that the revelation was untrue.

March 16

The Xi'an Internet Information Office's official Weibo "Xi'an Release" responded that "The Xi'an Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have tasked the supervision, quality supervision, safety supervision, and public security departments to form The joint investigation team will immediately start investigation, verification and re-testing, and samples will be sent to the nationally designated authoritative agency for testing."

March 17

The Information Office of the Xi'an Municipal Government held a press conference to report the latest investigation results on the cable problem of Metro Line 3, saying that it is safe to ride the Xi'an Metro at present, and stated that The investigation team has obtained information such as the cable procurement contract for Metro Line 3, and sent samples of the cables reflected in public opinion to the nationally designated authoritative agency for testing. The test results will be announced to the public as soon as possible. "If it is discovered during the investigation that there are indeed violations of laws and disciplines and problems of benefit transfer, no matter who is involved, they will be severely punished in accordance with the law and regulations," said Lu Jian, member of the Standing Committee of the Xi'an Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor.

March 20

The Xi'an Municipal Government once again held a press conference on issues related to Metro Line 3. The cable samples submitted for inspection on Metro Line 3 were all unqualified and will all be replaced. .

After the "problematic cable" incident in Xi'an Metro was exposed, the relevant departments of the State Council formed a joint investigation team to investigate and deal with it. After investigation, the incident was a serious illegal case of enterprises manufacturing and selling counterfeit and inferior products. It was an illegal case of relevant units and personnel colluding internally and externally to purchase and use counterfeit and inferior products. It was also an illegal case of relevant local government functional departments neglecting supervision and ineffective performance of their duties. Some party members Law and discipline cases involving leading cadres violating integrity and discipline, dereliction of duty, and dereliction of duty.

In order to strictly enforce law and discipline and safeguard the interests of the public, the State Council decided:

First, the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government was instructed to make an in-depth written inspection to the State Council, and the State Council notified the criticism.

Second, Shaanxi Province arrested 8 criminal suspects from illegal production enterprises involved in the case in accordance with the law, and held accountable 122 responsible persons of relevant local functional departments in accordance with the law and disciplines, including 16 at the department level and 58 at the division level. people. In addition, 19 persons involved in the case from units of central enterprises stationed in Shaanxi were put on file for investigation. At the same time, relevant departments and localities must conduct in-depth verification of the clues to the problems transferred by Shaanxi Province and deal with them in accordance with the law and disciplines.

Third, Shaanxi Province shall revoke all certification certificates and famous trademark recognitions of the illegal production enterprises involved in the case in accordance with laws and regulations, and revoke their business licenses and industrial product production licenses.

The fourth is to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the engineering projects involved, and complete the removal and replacement of all "problem cables" as soon as possible. Carry out special rectification of cable products across the country to investigate and eliminate various safety hazards in the production process and promote product quality improvement.

The fifth is to significantly increase the cost of quality violations involving people's life safety. Learn lessons deeply and further comprehensively strengthen quality supervision with a highly responsible attitude towards the people.