BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out efforts to rescue and treat the injured after a fire occurred at a plant in central China's Henan Province on Monday afternoon.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the instruction immediately after the incident, urging putting people's lives first.
The fire broke out at around 4 p.m. Monday at the plant of a commerce and trade company in Anyang City and has left 38 dead and two others injured. ■
