In the two sessions of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress this year, Hong Chengdong, a representative of the Municipal People’s Congress, caught fire for his “climbing-up performance”-he traveled all over the 28 floors of high-rise buildings, counting the use of fire doors layer by layer, and found obvious safety hazards.

Representative Hong said that in 2023, this high-rise building in Shanghai will be listed as a municipal listed supervision project. According to statistics from the fire department at that time, 362 of the 960 fire doors were severely damaged, and 175 of the 240 smoke exhaust outlets were not working properly. Rectification was required that year.

Last week, Representative Hong walked back into the building and walked down from the 28th floor to the first floor. He found that the fire doors on the 2nd to 6th floors were closed and locked, but all the 7th to 28th floors were open. In fact, fire doors cannot be opened for a long time. In case of a fire, the chimney effect will be aggravated and the rescue will be hindered.

Representative Hong used the data and related research from the “climbing” of the building on the spot to put forward suggestions: immediately launch the ”Life gate Guardian’ to carry out practical actions for the private sector, to consolidate the responsibilities of all parties, and to accurately investigate hidden dangers.

At the meeting, once this suggestion was put forward, it received a positive response. After the meeting, Representative Hong was also surrounded by media reporters.

Why is “climbing stairs” on fire? First of all, because what he is concerned about is not the isolation of a building’s facilities, but also the safety of life and property of millions of households, and the bottom line of safety in megacities. The large number of high-rise buildings in Shanghai, the early completion and high density, coupled with the high proportion of the elderly population and the weak ability to escape, in the event of a fire, the consequences are unimaginable.

Secondly, this is a vivid portrayal of the deputies to the National People’s Congress conscientiously performing their duties and advising the people. Re-walking the problem of high-rise buildings, dissecting a ‘sparrow”, figuring out safety hazards for the citizens, and aiming at the pain points of safety governance in megacities, it also demonstrates the original intention of the deputies of the National People’s Congress to take root at the grassroots level and care about people’s livelihood.

Moreover, we need to “look back” like this. Behaviors that “repeatedly educate and never reform” in key areas that are related to people’s safety should be severely punished. The safety of megacities begins with the persistence of one door and ends with the co-governance of tens of millions of people.