The Jiangsu
Government in China has officially issued the Improvement Plan of Safety and Environmental-Friendly Production in
Jiangsu Chemical Park recently. With the existence of this plan, a green
initiative of promoting the safety in the chemical industry has been launched
in order to clear up the chemical enterprises that fail to meet requirements. The
number of chemical enterprises will be faced with a decrease from 2,000 to
1,000 by the end of 2020, which has aroused great concerns in the industry.
The plan
has clearly indicated the overall purpose, which is to achieve radical
improvement in safety, obvious optimization for area layout and sharp reduction
of low capacity. In addition, criteria for withdrawal and a specific time
schedule have been confirmed in the plan.
Chemical enterprises below environmental
standards will be withdrawn
According
to the new plan chemical enterprises unable to meet environmental-friendly
standards and suffering from great potential hazard on safety are likely to be
confronted with a shutdown. The main goal is to ban the chemical enterprises or
production plants with outdated technology falling behind that have been listed
in the Elimination Catalogue in the country. Also, with the withdrawal of
chemical plants with poor infrastructure of safety and environmental protection
low capacity of chemical production can be better adjusted.
All chemical enterprises will be conducted
with a strict assessment. Substandard ones will face a shutdown or a
rectification within a deadline. Enterprises that fail to meet standards during
the rectification or make an overdue rectification will also undergo a
shutdown. Enterprises ranked as Category D in Comprehensive Evaluation of Resource Intensive Utilization in
Industrial Enterprises will be withdrawn quickly. Procedure of reproduction
and inspection during the rectification will be strictly prohibited.
The plan has listed specific time schedule for
the withdrawal
In the
aspect of optimizing the layout of chemical industry a particular time schedule
for the withdrawal has been listed in the plan.
- Chemical enterprises outside the
chemical industrial park within 1km along both sides of the mainstream and its
tributaries of the Long River will be in principle withdrawn or relocated by the
end of 2020.
For enterprises that are unable to be moved, a series of risk assessment
regarding the safety and the environment will be executed for the reform and
improvement. Those within the industrial park but without any relevance to the
industrial chain and with huge hidden danger in safety and environment with be
shut down by the end of 2020. Chemical projects of building and expanding chemical
industrial parks are strictly prohibited.
- The number of chemical enterprises
in environmental sensitive areas will be reduced.
Chemical enterprises within the First-Grade Protection Zone of Taihu
Lake, within 1km along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Clear Water
Channel of Tongyu River, as well as enterprises in the environmental sensitive
zones located in the red-line area of ecological protection, the Nature
Preserve, protected area of drinking water source and so on will be shut down
or relocated by the end of 2020.
- Reform and relocation of the
enterprises of hazardous chemical materials in densely inhabited districts in
town will be accelerated.
Enterprises with failure in reaching the standard of hygienic buffer
zones after assessment will be shut down or withdrawn by the end of 2020. As
for enterprises that are unable to be shut down or relocated, all inhabitants
within the hygienic buffer zone will be moved out by the end of 2020. For enterprises that meet the standard of hygienic
buffer zones strengthening of safe environmental supervison and encouragement
of enterprise upgrade and relocation are needed.
- Chemical enterprises out of the
industrial park will be decreased.
Enterprises outside the industrial park that face a high risk of safety,
a poor level of environmental management and a low level of technological
capacity will be all shut down or withdrawn by the end of 2020.
Several chemical industrial parks will be shut
down
The
Improvement Plan indicates reduction of the number of chemical industrial
parks, especially those in the centralised zone. The location of chemical
industrial parks with a small scale, low industry correlation, incomplete infrastructure,
serious environmental issues of safety and densely distributed sensitive
targets will be cancelled. After the cancellation of location the chemical
industrial park will be banned from developing new chemical projects.
Meanwhile, the existing enterprises in the chemical industrial park will be decreased
to a certain degree.
It is also
stated clearly in the plan that strict administration of the chemical
centralized zone is of great significance. Enterprises and projects of
explosive chemicals are banned and listed into Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals. Additionally low-end, highly
risky, highly consuming and highly polluting chemical projects must be
eliminated. Furthermore, facilities for production and storage in the
centralised zone, areas with dense population and the buffer zone between key
protection targets should be reconfirmed. Substandard chemical industrial parks
should be immediately rectified. Overdue rectification and unfulfillment will
lead to a shutdown or withdrawal. Large chemical enterprises outside the
chemical industrial park should execute the regulations of administration
according to that of the chemical industrial park.
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