Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang on Tuesday stressed the importance of ensuring work safety while transforming the economic development mode.

He urged earnest efforts in ensuring work safety during a tour of China's eastern Shandong Province, where he inspected state-owned enterprises.

In the drive of transforming China's economic development mode, an arduous and significant mission, we must stick to the concept of safe development and step up efforts to ensure work safety, Zhang said.

He urged all regions, departments and units to keep cool-headed about the task.

Zhang underscored the importance of fulfilling work safety responsibilities, strengthening safety inspection, severely punishing acts detrimental to work safety, advancing work safety-related science and technology, and providing relevant training to employees.