The safety of chemical parks needs to be improved and upgraded

A few days ago, the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Safe Production of Hazardous Chemicals" issued by the Ministry of Emergency Management pointed out that the number of chemical accidents and deaths nationwide in 2020 will drop by 36% and 24% respectively compared with 2016.
The number dropped by 17%, and the safety production situation further improved
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However, the frequent occurrence of accidents due to the inadequate management and control of safety risks in industrial transfer also occurs from time to time.
It is imperative to upgrade the safety and quality of chemical parks.
The following aspects need to be paid attention to by all parties
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High attention should be paid to the safe production of chemical parks
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The "Plan" puts forward specific requirements for the safety supervision of chemical industrial parks from various aspects, levels and dimensions
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New chemical projects must enter the park, forming a new development pattern of industrial agglomeration, centralized layout, and intensive land use, but inevitably brings new problems of risk accumulation
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Especially in recent years, a large number of chemical companies have shifted to the west.
Some areas focus on development and ignore safety.
They blindly develop the chemical industry and build chemical parks without conditions.
To a certain extent, they have increased safety risks and must be paid attention to by all regions
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We must attach great importance to the "life and death line" of chemical industrial parks
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The "Plan" clearly states that in 2022, the A-level and B-level chemical parks will be "cleared", and about 90% of the chemical parks will reach the D-level goal in 2025
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According to statistics, as of January 2022, a total of 21 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have released a total of 514 chemical parks, including chemical parks, chemical concentration areas, and parks undertaken by hazardous chemical production enterprises
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At present, the task of "clearing" the A-level and B-level chemical parks before the end of the year is very arduous.
In particular, the chemical parks in the western provinces have a lot of debts in infrastructure construction, which is far from the requirement of "ten have two prohibitions".
There are gaps, and governments at all levels where the park is located need to attach great importance to speed up the rectification
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Industrialization and intensification are inevitable trends in the development of China's chemical industry, but chemical industrial parks must not become the focus of accidents
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The author believes that the chemical park can be promoted from two aspects to achieve the goal of "two episodes and one low" of "centralized layout, cluster development, and reduction of safety risk levels", so as to create a safe platform for the future development of the chemical industry
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First, the planning and establishment of chemical parks should be strictly established, and those that do not meet the requirements will be resolutely withdrawn
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Although the occurrence of major accidents in the past few years has caused the public to "talk about changes", the characteristics of the chemical industry, such as large investment and long industrial chain, are also very attractive to economically backward regions, and have become the focus of investment promotion in various places
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Some areas without land and natural resources blindly plan and set up chemical parks, which makes the follow-up development direction of the enterprises in the park uncertain and poses a potential safety hazard
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For example, a chemical park in a city in the northwest has 81 enterprises entering the park, of which 80 have not obtained water drawing licenses
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The sewage treatment facilities in the park cannot be discharged stably up to the standard, and the operation has been suspended since March 24, 2021
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Enterprises in the park need to transfer the sewage to more than 50 kilometers away by themselves, and entrust a third-party sewage treatment enterprise for treatment
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Because the water supply and drainage problems cannot be properly solved, most enterprises have abnormal production, which starts and stops at times, which is a taboo for chemical safety production
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Therefore, local governments should strictly implement the "Chemical Park Construction Standards and Certification Management Measures (Trial)", and resolutely withdraw from parks that do not meet the requirements
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The second is to increase investment and improve the infrastructure of the park as soon as possible
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Driven by the concept of "emphasizing development and ignoring safety", some regions have insufficient understanding of overall development and safety.
As a result, some recognized provincial chemical parks have not yet completed the construction of closed management and safety risk warning systems, and some chemical parks have even Without the construction of fire stations, safety risks are facing out of control
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If the arrears of infrastructure cannot be made up in time, and the chemical industry park will be restricted to new construction and expansion projects before the end of the year, the chemical park will be restricted, which should attract the attention of the local government
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Of course, for those parks that "as long as GDP, not safety", it is not enough to restrict new construction and expansion projects.
If the park cannot fundamentally guarantee safety, it will be forced to withdraw from chemical production
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Only in this way can we form a deterrent to the phenomenon of blind construction of chemical projects and curb the trend of "blooming everywhere" in non-compliant chemical parks
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