On the afternoon of March 26, the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee held a special meeting to study the cable issue of Xi'an Metro Line 3. Provincial Party Secretary Lou Qinjian presided over the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized that we should stand on the side of the people, conduct a strict investigation according to law, and crack down on all types of illegal and criminal activities to effectively safeguard public safety and the interests of the people. Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Secretary of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection Guo Yongping, Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee Liu Xiaoyan, Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Executive Vice Governor and Director of the Provincial Propaganda Department Liang Gui, Provincial Party Standing Committee member and Xi'an Municipal Party Secretary Wang Yongkang, and Xi'an Mayor Shangguan Jiqing attended the meeting. In his speech, Lou Qinjian pointed out that public safety is connected to every household and is crucial to the overall situation of reform, development, and stability. We should stand on the side of the people, conduct a strict and thorough investigation into the cable issue of Metro Line 3, and regardless of who is involved in any illegal or criminal activities, we must investigate thoroughly, punish severely, and never tolerate. We must severely crack down on acts that harm public interests with counterfeit and shoddy products, severely crack down on acts that disrupt market order, and effectively safeguard public safety and the vital interests of the people. Lou Qinjian emphasized that the cable issue of Xi'an Metro Line 3 is a concentrated reflection of problems in market order. Taking this investigation as an opportunity, we should further increase efforts to carry out special rectification of market order across the province, seriously investigate and deal with corruption in the field of engineering construction, and strive to create a clean, efficient, fair, just, stable, and transparent business environment. The Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Xi'an Municipality and other units should earnestly assume responsibility, vigorously advance the investigation, boldly pursue accountability, respond to social concerns, and provide the people with a truthful, reliable, and testable answer. 
On March 13, a netizen claiming to be an employee of Shaanxi Aokai Cable Co., Ltd. posted a message titled "Do you still dare to take the Xi'an Metro?" reporting that there are serious safety hazards on Xi'an Metro Line 3, and that the cables used on the entire line were produced by "a small workshop that does not meet national standards," with "cutting corners and various production indicators not meeting subway construction standards." On March 15, Shaanxi Aokai Cable Co., Ltd. issued a statement on its official website, calling the post "false rumors" and saying it had reported the case to the police. On March 16, "Xi'an Release" pushed the "Response to Public Opinion on Metro Line 3": "The main leaders of the municipal party committee and government have instructed a strict investigation, formed a joint investigation team to verify, sampled and sent to national authoritative institutions for testing, and the results will be announced as soon as possible." On March 17, the Xi'an Municipal Government held the first press conference to report on the "relevant situation of Metro Line 3." Jing Liugang, director of the Xi'an Quality Supervision Bureau, responded at the meeting: from October 12 to November 17, 2015, law enforcement personnel went to the Metro Line 3 four times to inspect batches of cables, found that some batches were unqualified, and one test report was forged. On March 20, the Xi'an Municipal Government held the second press conference. Experts clarified to the public that "the problematic cables do not affect the safe operation and control of trains," and the metro company promised to "replace all cables in the shortest possible time"; the press conference reported that 8 people from Aokai Company were legally controlled, and the problematic enterprise was included in the "blacklist." On March 21, Wang Zhiwei, the legal representative of Aokai Company, admitted that the company had passed off inferior products as superior ones and supplied unqualified cables, and apologized to the people of Xi'an. On March 23, a reporter from Huashang Daily rushed to the hometown of Aokai Cable boss Wang Zhiwei, Wang Wangshiyou Village, Guxian Town, Hejian City, Hebei Province. Wang Zhiwei's second brother Wang Binglu introduced that it was also on March 17 that they suddenly saw the news on TV and discovered that his younger brother was in trouble! Wang Zhiwei's elderly father said: Everything is fine at home, and he hopes that he (Wang Zhiwei) "should bear what he should bear, and not bear what he should not!" On March 24, a reporter from Huashang Daily came to Yangling and found several former employees of Aokai Company who were from Yangling. They all said that from 2015 to the first half of 2016, the company had repeatedly transported several batches of cables with specifications of 90 square millimeters and 120 square millimeters from outside, and after "re-labeling" them in the factory, sold them again to the outside world.
