Thirty years ago today, on October 12, 1995 (August 18, 1995, the Karamay fire case was concluded. On October 12, 1995, the "12.8" catastrophic fire accident case in Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was concluded in the second instance of the Higher People's Court of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the 14 persons responsible were subject to legal sanctions. Abulaiti Kader and Chen Huijun, who were guilty of a major responsible accident, were each sentenced to 6 years in prison; Fang Tianlu, Tang Jian and Cai Zhaofeng, who were guilty of dereliction of duty, were each sentenced to 5 years in prison; Zhao Lanxiu was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison; Yue Lin, Kuang Li, Sun Yong, Zhao Zhongzheng and Zhu Minglong were each sentenced to 4 years in prison; Zhao Zheng was guilty of dereliction of duty and was exempted from criminal punishment. On December 8, 1994, the Karamay City Education Commission and the Education and Training Center of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau held a special cultural performance at the Karamay City Friendship Museum to welcome the evaluation and acceptance of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's "two basics"(basically popularizing nine-year compulsory education and basically eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people). A total of 796 students, teachers and relevant leaders from 7 middle schools and 8 primary schools in the city participated. At about 18:20 during the performance, the stage curtain was burned by light column lights, and the fire quickly spread to the theater hall. Various flammable materials burned and produced a large amount of harmful gases, resulting in a tragedy in which 323 people were killed and 132 people were injured., and caused direct economic losses of 38 million yuan. The Intermediate People's Court of Karamay City found in the first instance that this particularly serious fire accident was caused by the leaders and staff of the Friendship Hall and other units who seriously violated rules and regulations, were seriously irresponsible, were seriously bureaucratic, dereliction of duty, and did not perform or incorrectly perform their duties. Abulaiti Kader, former deputy director of the Friendship Pavilion of the Culture and Art Center of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau of Trade Unions in Karamay City, neglected to manage the safety work of the Friendship Pavilion and failed to effectively rectify the hidden dangers in the museum. It seriously violated fire prevention and safety management regulations. After the fire broke out, service personnel were not organized to open all safety doors and evacuate people in the venue. He was the main directly responsible for the fire and the serious consequences. The service staff of the Friendship Museum Chen Huijun and Nusrati Yusufujiang were seriously irresponsible in their work. During the performance, they did not patrol the venue for inspections. After the fire broke out, they did not perform their duties and did not open the safety door. Instead, they escaped outside the museum; Waiter Liu Zhuying left his job and failed to perform his duties. The above three people are directly responsible for the consequences of the accident. Although Cai Zhaofeng, the former director and instructor of the Friendship Museum, was away on a business trip when the fire broke out, he did not provide safety education to employees and formulate emergency precautions while at the unit. He did not rectify the hidden dangers of the Friendship Museum. He was seriously irresponsible in his work and was directly responsible for the occurrence of fire accidents. Sun Yong, former director of the Culture and Art Center, and Zhao Zhongzheng, instructor, failed to take active measures to urge the Friendship Hall to eliminate hidden dangers. They were seriously irresponsible in their work and were directly responsible for the occurrence of fire accidents. Yue Lin, the former vice chairman of the Petroleum Administration Bureau of Trade Unions, who was in charge of the work of the Cultural and Art Center, knew that there were hidden dangers such as fire in the Friendship Hall, and did not require inspection and rectification, and was seriously irresponsible for his work. Zhao Lanxiu, former deputy mayor of Karamay City, and Fang Tianlu, former deputy director of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau, are the main leaders in organizing the "two basics" assessment and acceptance work and the performance site. They failed to properly perform their statutory guardianship duties for minors and failed to organize and command the evacuation of students in the field when a fire broke out. Therefore, they are directly responsible for the occurrence of fire accidents and the increased casualties of the accident. In view of Zhao Lanxiu's behavior of instructing others to call the police, he may be given a lighter punishment as appropriate. Tang Jian, former deputy director of the Education Commission of Karamay City, Kuang Li, former deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Education and Training Center of the Xinjiang Petroleum Administration Bureau, Zhu Minglong, former chief of the General Education Section of the Municipal Education Commission, and Zhao Zheng, deputy chief of the section, were the specific organizers and implementers of this performance and were negligent about the personal safety of minors; Tang Jian, Kuang Li and Zhu Minglong did not organize the evacuation of students when a fire broke out, but only cared about their own escape, and were directly responsible for the consequences of serious casualties. After the fire broke out, although Zhao Zheng was able to organize and prepare students for the performance to evacuate outside the museum, and carried out the act of rescuing students outside the museum, he neglected to organize the evacuation of students on the south side of the stage, which was subjective. In view of the minor circumstances of the crime, no penalty will be imposed. After the verdict was pronounced in the first instance, except Zhao Zheng, all the other 13 defendants appealed. The Higher People's Court of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued a final judgment on October 11, 1995, rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment.