As the world was awed by the successful rescue of Chile's 33-trapped miners, Chinese netizens have urged that similar safety and security measures should be put in place in China.

According to a popular web portal sohu.com, some Chinese residents were alarmed and even lamented of the reality of the country's work safety measures that are yet to be fully installed especially in highly hazardous jobs such as in mining, quarrying, and at times in manufacturing.

Here are some of the posted messages of some concerned Chinese residents in the web page sohu.com:

"Lucky people who were born in Chile... If it was us, we would definitely have been buried alive and died.

"Chile's rescue operation has humiliated China. Think about it, so many Chinese workers die in mining disasters," added another.

As of 7 AM in Sydney, the first group of the 33 Chilean workers were safely pulled back out of the mining tunnel that they were trapped in for the last 69 days.

In a related report of the Agence France Presse, it highlighted that China's mining sector has been known as "notoriously dangerous" to workers.

Last year, it was reported that some 2,631 miners were killed and trapped in an undisclosed mining area.

"We know who every person rescued is when they come up (in Chile), it's so transparent. In China, it's just not comparable," one web user from the central city of Changsha said on web portal sina.com.

In July, Premier Wen Jiabao noted that something ought to be done to the nation's "serious" work safety situation especially in mining areas.