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Elevator companies in China vow safer products

Xinhua, January 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Major elevator producers in China on Wednesday promised safer products after 46 people died in elevator accidents in the country in 2015.

The 10 companies, including Shanghai Mitsubishi Elevator and Hitachi Elevator (China) Co., take up more than 60 percent of the market in China, which has more than 4 million escalators and elevators.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine started a campaign for elevator safety in 2015, overhauling 101,000 dangerous models. Endi