Shandong delimits 'hard bars' for chemical investment projects

At present, all the provincial chemical industry parks and specialized chemical industry parks have been identified and announced, and chemical investment projects have a carrier to undertake. The Provincial Government Office recently officially issued the Regulations on the Management of Chemical Investment Projects in Shandong Province (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations). It is clear that the investment projects of chemical fixed assets such as new construction, expansion, renovation and technological renovation in Shandong Province in the future should strictly abide by the three principles of advancement, safety, environmental protection and intensiveness, and in principle all of them should be implemented in Shandong Province. The chemical industry parks, specialized chemical industry parks and key monitoring points identified by the provincial government shall be implemented.
According to the requirements of national industrial policy, our province supports the development of incentive projects, strictly controls restrictive projects and strictly prohibits the elimination of such projects. It is proposed in the Regulations that environmental impact assessment and safety production evaluation should be carried out in chemical investment projects to ensure that safety and environmental protection facilities in investment projects are designed, constructed and put into operation at the same time as the main projects. All parts of the province also need to strictly comply with the requirements of intensive gathering, actively promote chemical enterprises into the park, encourage upstream and downstream collaboration between enterprises, build a chain to strengthen the chain, restructure and enhance capacity integration.

The Regulation clearly states that chemical investment projects, in principle, should be recognized by the provincial government as chemical industry parks, professional chemical industry parks and key monitoring. It is implemented within the site and conforms to relevant planning such as territorial spatial planning and industrial development planning. The investment in fixed assets of newly built chemical projects for the production of hazardous chemicals is not less than 300 million yuan in principle (excluding land costs). In order to encourage high-end development, projects listed in the Catalogue of Guidance for Industrial Structure Adjustment and Catalogue of Guidance for Foreign Investment Industries that are encouraged and relocated to the park may not be subject to the above-mentioned investment limits.

For the newly established highly toxic chemicals project, our province imposes strict restrictions to ensure that only the production enterprises of highly toxic chemicals are reduced and not increased.

According to the special action plan of transformation and upgrading of chemical industry safety for five years, in December 2017, the provincial government promulgated Shandong Chemical Industry. Provisional Regulations on the Management of Investment Projects shall be valid until the end of this year. "Compared with the Interim Provisions, the Provisions implement the requirements of the reform of"putting in custody"and actively decentralize the authority of examination and approval." Relevant leaders of the Provincial Special Action Office for Chemical Industry pointed out that the approval and filing organs at all levels implement the graded management of chemical projects according to their respective responsibilities. New chemical projects involving "two key points and one major" will no longer be jointly audited at different levels, thus effectively speeding up the implementation of the project.