66,000 workplace deaths in China last year: Report
China, despite strengthened legislation, saw 282,000 work safety accidents in 2015, in which 66,000 people were killed, according to a report. Deaths have dropped 50% since 2002, but insufficient safety precautions at workplaces remain a major problem, it added. Over the past three months, China saw five major work safety accidents which killed at least 179 people.