The Shopping Mall blaze killed three firefighters and two others on Jan 2, 2008. Most recently, on Feb 9th, 2009 during the Chinese New Year celebrations,fireworks caught the newly completed Mandarin Oriental Hotel on fire in Beijing. The fire caused over 700 million US dollars in damages and left one firefighter dead.
The same attention to developing China's infrastructure and technology needs to be given to enforcing the existing health and safety regulations that protect the China's people. Developing new processes and methods to hold people accountable for ensuring safety would represent meaningful innovation.