Special equipment includes boilers, pressure vessels, pressure pipelines, elevators, hoisting machinery, passenger ropeways, large amusement rides, and specialized motor vehicles used within sites (factories). These devices generally operate under high pressure, high temperature, high altitude, and high speed conditions, are flammable, explosive, and prone to falling from height, and pose significant danger to personal and property safety.

　　The Special Equipment Safety Law consists of seven chapters and 101 articles, providing detailed provisions on the production, operation, and use of special equipment, inspection and testing, safety supervision and management, accident emergency rescue and investigation and handling, legal liability, and other matters.

　　The Special Equipment Safety Law highlights the primary safety responsibility of special equipment production, operation, and use units, explicitly stipulating: in the production stage, manufacturers are responsible for the quality of special equipment; in the operation stage, special equipment sold and leased must meet safety requirements, and lessors have the obligation to manage and maintain the safety of special equipment use; in the use stage, where accidents frequently occur, user units are responsible for the safety of special equipment use and have the obligation to scrap special equipment, and shall bear compensation liability in accordance with the law for damage caused by accidents.