Security inspections have been launched in more than 70 regions across the count

In Jiangsu Province, 4 subsidiaries of Tianjiayi have shut down, 3 enterprises in Suqian have been ordered to stop production for rectification. In Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, 105 enterprises have been rectified.In Weifang, Shandong Province,6 enterprises have relocated or shut down, and the emergency department of the Province has supervised the production of nitro compounds, penalized 2 enterprises and stopped production and rectified 3 enterprises.

The national work safety inspection has been fully carried out, thousands of chemical enterprises involved. Up to now, the inspection has swept 73 areas including Jinhua and Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province, Shanxi Province, Jingzhou, Hongjiang, Binzhou, and Shaoyang in Hunan Province, Anqing, Woyang County, and Dangtu County in Anhui Province, Muyang County in Jiangsu Province, Gaoyi County in Hebei Province, Guang’an and Zhongjiang County in Sichuan Province, Xiaochang in Hubei Province, Jiangxi Province, Zoucheng in Shandong Province, Tongliao in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Fuzhou in Fujian Province.

Security inspections have been launched in more than 70 regions across the country.

In Jiangsu Province, 4 subsidiaries of Tianjiayi have shut down, 3 enterprises in Suqian have been ordered to stop production for rectification. In Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, 105 enterprises have been rectified. In Weifang, Shandong Province,6 enterprises have relocated or shut down, and the emergency department of the Province has supervised the production of nitro compounds, penalized 2 enterprises and stopped production and rectified 3 enterprises.

The national work safety inspection has been fully carried out, thousands of chemical enterprises involved. Up to now, the inspection has swept 73 areas including Jinhua and Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province, Shanxi Province, Jingzhou, Hongjiang, Binzhou, and Shaoyang in Hunan Province, Anqing, Woyang County, and Dangtu County in Anhui Province, Muyang County in Jiangsu Province, Gaoyi County in Hebei Province, Guang’an and Zhongjiang County in Sichuan Province, Xiaochang in Hubei Province, Jiangxi Province, Zoucheng in Shandong Province, Tongliao in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and Fuzhou in Fujian Province.

Chemical industrial parks in different provinces have their own characteristics due to different resources, locations and conditions, and their development stages are also different. On the whole, there are some common problems in Chinese chemical industrial parks: scattered distribution, lack of unified guidance and planning, small-scale of upstream industrial parks, unreasonable structuring, and huge pressure on security and environmental protection. No matter for chemical enterprises or chemical industrial parks, the environmental protection inspection team has made many local enterprise parks unbearable. Once no new chemical plants are built in the Yangtze River valley, it will be another huge change for the industry.

Three-year action plan: measures to tackle pollution

The three-year action plan is to optimize the industrial layout, as well as to adjust the industrial mix.

Intensify efforts to handle overcapacity and eliminate backward production facilities based on quality, environmental protection, energy consumption, and safety. We will encourage all local governments to  eliminate outdated production facilities with wider scope and stricter standards.

Improve enterprises that are messy and high-polluting. We will cooperate with the Ministry of Ecological Environment in formulating standards for the management of “messy and dirty” enterprises and clusters, and upgrade the chemical industry according to industrial policies and industrial layout planning.

Shift production in key areas. We will make proper production plan according to seasons and areas, and make targeted plan for different production line, process and facilities. Imposing one single solution to all situations is not allowed.

 Anhui ：The number of chemical enterprises in Anhui Province is large and the layout is scattered. The approval of 12 industrial parks in nine cities including Hefei, Huaibei, Ma'anshan and Tongling is limited."

 Fujian：The local government of Fujian Province has spared no pains to ensure work safety, and immediately carried out the screening, investigation, treatment and effective control of all kinds of safety risks in the production of hazardous chemicals within all chemical industrial parks across the province.

 Guangdong "The local government of Guangdong Province will promptly formulate action plans for law enforcement in key industries such as hazardous chemicals and explosives based on realities, and promote safe production and rectification in every link.

 Hebei Except those shut down, more than 100 industrial parks within the province have been merged and integrated. Policies have been implemented for unified management, examination and approval, and assessment.

HenanThe local government of Henan Province has carried out  investigation to  eliminate security risks, especially for chemical enterprises. The investigation should be done carefully and thoroughly, not let go of any hidden dangers and loopholes.

 Hubei Hubei Province has decided to strictly regulate chemical industry parks since June 2018. After the explosion, the identification and approval of industrial parks will be more stringent.

 Jiangsu More than 7,400 chemical enterprises have shut down. Small chemical companies with low safety coefficient and serious pollution will be completely eliminated and the Xiangshui Chemical Industrial Park will be completely closed. Eventually, only 1,000 chemical enterprises will be retained.

ShandongThe local government of Shandong Province has implemented 14 specific work requirements from four aspects, namely, clarifying fire safety responsibilities, strengthening fire source control, preventing and defusing major risks, and improving basic security capabilities. Targeted investigation and renovation will be carried out in densely-populated places such as industrial parks, shopping malls and markets, and kindergartens.

Zhejiang"Inspections have been carried out in hazardous chemical waste storage and hidden dangers must be eliminated.  Examinations of hazardous chemicals in ports and logistics have also been conducted.