On January 17th, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development held a video conference to deploy the acceleration of the national urban gas pipeline safety special governance work. The meeting emphasized the need to make every effort to tackle the challenge of updating and transforming aging gas pipelines. It is essential to accelerate the update and transformation of aging gas pipelines, adhering to the principles of "quality first, safety first," and ensuring comprehensive management of the update and transformation projects. This year, the tasks for updating and transforming the identified aging gas pipelines should be basically completed. Efforts will be intensified to promote the construction of urban lifeline safety projects, focusing on gas pipelines, increasing the deployment of intelligent IoT sensing devices to automatically perceive and dynamically monitor the operational status of gas pipelines, ensuring safe operation
