Shandong Province initiated special law enforcement and inspection of chemicals

Xiangshui incident triggers chain reaction.

On April 9, the Office of the Security Committee of the Shandong Provincial Government issued a news that it had decided to carry out a three-month special law enforcement inspection on safety production in key industries such as hazardous chemicals, coal mines, non-coal mines, fire protection, metallurgical industry and trade in Shandong Province. The general requirement of this special inspection in Shandong is to learn a series of lessons from accidents such as Xiangshui in Jiangsu Province, and to lock in key areas such as hazardous chemicals, coal mines, non-coal mines, fire protection, metallurgical industry and trade, and gas use.

If the intensity is great, the price of raw materials may increase.

The official wording of this inspection is more stringent, and clearly proposed that we should resolutely implement "five batches": punish a batch of illegal and irregular acts according to law, thoroughly control a batch of major security risks, close down a batch of illegal and irregular enterprises and enterprises that do not have the conditions for safe production, and jointly punish a batch of enterprises that have serious breaches of trust. Responsibilities expose a number of units and individuals who fail to implement their responsibilities and take inadequate measures.

As one of the key areas, the field of hazardous chemicals requires that all hazardous chemicals production enterprises be subject to full coverage and special law enforcement inspection in accordance with the Criteria for Determining the Potential Hazards of Major Production Safety Accidents of Chemical and Hazardous Chemicals Production and Business Units (Trial Implementation). Among them, the chemical enterprises involved in nitrification reaction are the focus, requiring "looking back"; for the chemical enterprises that have stopped production and shutdown, they also need to "looking back", on-site inspection to confirm whether the production is really shut down, whether to implement the measures of refueling, emptying and replacement of equipment after shutdown. Another is to inspect the chemical industry parks previously identified and published by the Shandong provincial government, focusing on the assessment and rectification of regional safety risks in the chemical industry parks, especially the safety impact of hazardous chemicals enterprises in the parks on the surrounding units. After the Xiangshui incident, Shandong Province, which is also a major chemical province, has carried out a round of potential safety hazards investigation for hazardous chemical enterprises.

The Office of the Safety Production Committee of the Shandong People's Government and the Emergency Department of Shandong Province issued the Notice on the Emergency Action for the Immediate Investigation and Treatment of Potential Safety Dangerous Chemicals Enterprises and the Notice on Organizing the Special Supervision of the Safety Production of Hazardous Chemicals Enterprises respectively, requesting that the work of safety production of dangerous chemicals in Shandong Province be done well and the province-wide Safety supervision of chemical production plant enterprises shall strictly prevent the occurrence of various accidents and ensure the continuous and stable production situation of hazardous chemicals in the province. On March 29, the office of the Shandong Provincial Government Security Committee issued a message that 762 inspection teams were dispatched to inspect 4,050 hazardous chemicals enterprises in Shandong Province. 22504 problems and hidden dangers were found, 113 enterprises were filed for punishment and 121 enterprises were ordered to stop production and rectify.

A senior executive of a large pesticide enterprise in Shandong Province told China Securities Journal in an interview: "Shandong has made great efforts in the chemical industry renovation in the past few years, and has been relatively standardized on the whole. After the Xiangshui incident, a round of inspection has been carried out. On the whole, the enterprise is running well, especially for the large standardized enterprises, which will not have much impact. Our company has been producing normally and has not been affected. To check the impact.

"The ultimate impact on the industry depends on the actual strength, if it is only routine inspection, it will not have much impact, if the strength is great, raw materials may rise in price", the person also mentioned in particular that the last article in the Security Committee document clearly requires the organization of expert guidance service teams to go deep into small and medium-sized enterprises, to help and guide enterprises to do a good job in security risk investigation and rectification work, which It also reflects that the current government no longer does "one size fits all" and "one size fits all" on the issue of chemical enterprises, and the impact on the industry may not be as obvious as in previous years.

The head of the above-mentioned pesticide enterprises said that Shandong started the special action of chemical industry in 2017 and identified the chemical industry park with strict standards. This round of rectification is a round of practical supply-side reform in the field of chemical industry in Shandong Province. A large number of unqualified small enterprises have completely died, and the standardization of large enterprises has been further improved.

A number of large enterprises benefited from it. The management of a comprehensive chemical park told reporters: "The most direct effect of stringency in the chemical industry is the continuity of production, which will not be affected by various kinds of inspections. The advantages brought by previous investment in the field of safety and environmental protection have been reflected, and the profits of enterprises are released quickly." According to the data of Shandong Special Action Office for Chemical Industry, in the first half of 2018, the main business income and profit of Chemical Enterprises above the scale of Shandong Province reached 1424.150 billion yuan and 79.98 billion yuan, respectively, up 12.47% and 21.67% over the same period of last year. The implementation of special action effectively solved the problems of "bad coins expelling good coins" and "weeds flooding grass seedlings". On April 5, Yancheng City of Jiangsu decided to close the Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park completely. At the same time, according to the upgrading plan of the provincial chemical industry, it further raised the renovation standards of chemical industry parks and enterprises in Jiangsu and supported the construction of "no-chemical areas" in various regions.

On April 8, affected by the closure of Xiangshui Chemical Industry Park and the emotional influence of Jiangsu Province's plan to reduce the number of chemical enterprises and chemical industry parks, the opening of A-share chemical industry stocks rose and stopped, and nearly 60 chemical industry stocks closed.

On the evening of 8th, the news of China Jiangsu Net showed that the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial Committee held a meeting and discussed it.