Work safety will greatly influence the job evaluation of the officials at all levels, according to the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS).

"This will make officials not only focus on the GDP growth, but also see if the death toll can be reduced," a senior official with the SAWS, China's safety watchdog, said in Beijing Wednesday.

China will also make chief administrative officials take first-line responsibility for work safety accidents, the official said.

The work safety standards will include the accident death rate of GDP-generating, practitioner-working, traffic and coal-producing, according to the SAWS.

In 2005, the death rate of producing 100 million yuan (about 12.3 million US dollars) hit 0.73, twice as much as the number of Korea and 20 times as much as the number of the United States, figures released by the SAWS showed.

China plans to reduce it by 35 percent in five years, the SAWS said.

Source: Xinhua