{"id":36159,"date":"2019-03-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:48:15","slug":"11159-china-s-latest-chemical-plant-explosion-was-avoidable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/pollution\/11159-china-s-latest-chemical-plant-explosion-was-avoidable\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s latest chemical plant explosion was avoidable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News and social media images of an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjnews.com.cn\/news\/2019\/03\/22\/559127.html\">explosion<\/a>&nbsp;on March 21 in Xiangshui county, eastern China, call to mind the terrifying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.org.cn\/article\/show\/single\/ch\/8127-Tianjin-blasts-shine-unwelcome-light-on-China-s-chemicals-industry\">blast<\/a>&nbsp;at a chemicals warehouse in Tianjin in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>By March 25,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/china.huanqiu.com\/article\/2019-03\/14606965.html?agt=262\">78 people<\/a>&nbsp;were known to have died in the latest blast, which occurred at a&nbsp;plant in the Chenjiagang&nbsp;industrial&nbsp;park. A further&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepaper.cn\/newsDetail_forward_3195300\">566<\/a>&nbsp;are receiving treatment in local hospitals. Officials from the plant, which belongs to Tianjiayi Chemical Company, have been detained.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the explosion is still under investigation. But media reports indicate that the tragedy was avoidable and that the lessons of Tianjin have still not been learned.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hidden risks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There had long been indications of risk at the Chenjiagang industrial park, and at the Tianjiayi plant in particular.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;2007, another&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjnews.com.cn\/news\/2011\/02\/14\/103866.html\">explosion<\/a>&nbsp;at the park, at&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lianhetech.com\/\">Lianhua Technology<\/a>&nbsp;plant, killed eight and injured dozens. Then in 2010, tens of people were hospitalised after a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cri.cn\/gb\/27824\/2010\/11\/24\/782s3066205.htm\">chlorine leak<\/a>&nbsp;from a chloralkali process plant.<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1628700106891371626&amp;wfr=spider&amp;for=pc\">media reports<\/a>, locals had repeatedly complained of the park being too close to homes. Three elementary schools and two kindergartens are located within two kilometres of the Tianjiayi plant.<\/p>\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.bjnews.com.cn\/html\/2019-03\/23\/content_750002.htm?div=-1\"><em>Beijing News<\/em><\/a>, the State Administration of Work Safety,&nbsp;which regulates occupational safety in China, had reported problems with the body responsible for monitoring safety at the Tianjiayi plant, citing insufficient analysis and identification of risk factors and hazards, and a lack of targeted measures to rectify issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A bloody lesson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two days after the blast, China&rsquo;s president Xi Jinping issued&nbsp;an instruction&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;investigation&nbsp;into the explosion&nbsp;and on&nbsp;relief work. The State Council Work Safety Commission&nbsp;also issued an urgent notice on improving safety&nbsp;standards to prevent&nbsp;similar major incidents.<\/p>\n<p>As of March 24, at least 16 provinces or cities had started checks on the safety of their chemical industries. They indicated that lessons would be learned from the Xiangshui blast. A statement by the party secretary of Tianjin drew particular attention. He called for the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1628882090737675129&amp;wfr=spider&amp;for=pc\">bloody lessons<\/a>&rdquo; of the August 2015 explosion not to be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>It seems no improvements had been made at the Tianjiayi plant after the Tianjin explosion.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t1n.www.rmzxb.com.cn\/c\/2019-03-23\/2316470.shtml\">Media reports<\/a>&nbsp;show that production licenses were not renewed once they had expired in 2016. In February last year, the safety authorities&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinanews.com\/sh\/2019\/03-21\/8786730.shtml\">identified<\/a>&nbsp;13 different hazards at the plant. Between 2016 and 2018, the company was fined on six occasions for breaches of rules on waste gases or handling of solid waste. In June 2018, the Xiangshui&nbsp;industrial plant was shut down for seven months over environmental concerns, but it reopened early this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>China accounts for 40% of global chemical sales<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.org.cn\/article\/show\/single\/en\/10768-A-turning-point-in-China-s-disaster-preparedness-\">ministerial reforms<\/a>&nbsp;in March last year, the State Administration of Work Safety, responsible for safety in the chemical industry, was made a part of the new Ministry of Emergency Management. That ministry also took over other responsibilities, including fire-fighting, which was formerly&nbsp;the remit of the Ministry of Public Security, and disaster relief, formerly the responsibility of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The Ministry of Emergency Management&nbsp;ranks higher than the original work safety body, and therefore has greater powers to tackle potential risks. It has organised a number of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.119.gov.cn\/xiaofang\/xwtp\/36001.htm\">actions<\/a>&nbsp;on chemical industry safety,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2018-08\/17\/c_1123286782.htm\">auditing risks and issues<\/a>&nbsp;in chemical production nationwide. Issues such as poor storage of chemicals, which caused the Tianjin blast, have been discovered at many sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But those checks did not prevent this latest explosion. According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.caixin.com\/2019-03-23\/101396137.html\"><em>Caixin&nbsp;<\/em>analysis<\/a>&nbsp;of the factory layout and aerial photos of the scene, the blast is likely to have originated in a storehouse for hazardous chemical waste. This again highlights the limitations of China&rsquo;s top-down, campaign-style approach to dealing with day-to-day safety and environmental risks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Economic growth above all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The county of Xiangshui, where the blast occurred, has long been relatively undeveloped. But its proximity to the Yellow Sea and the Guan River has made it attractive to chemical manufacturers reliant on shipping for transportation.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure rapid economic growth, chemical firms have been encouraged to build factories here, providing crucial revenue to the local economy. According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1628757753973679018&amp;wfr=spider&amp;for=pc\"><em>Beijing News<\/em><\/a>, at the highest point in 2011, about one-sixth of the county&rsquo;s tax income came from the Chenjiagang industrial park.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sina.com.cn\/o\/p\/2011-08-30\/111023074763.shtml\">media investigation<\/a>&nbsp;in 2011 found that Chenjiagang was actively courting chemical firms, and implying the local environment could cope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long-term environmental impacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.caixin.com\/2019-03-24\/101396361.html\"><em>Caixin<\/em><\/a>, rivers near the site of the explosion were still showing excessive levels of pollution as of March 23.&nbsp;Levels of&nbsp;dichloroethane and methylene chloride in the Xinfeng River&nbsp;were2.8 times and 8.4 times higher than normal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Environment minister Li Ganjie has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.cenews.com.cn\/html\/2019-03\/25\/content_81758.htm\">called<\/a>&nbsp;for the environmental impact of the explosion to be minimised. According to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, rivers within the industrial park have been dammed to ensure pollution does not reach the Guan River downstream.<\/p>\n<p>But it is hard to say what the longer-term environmental impacts&nbsp;of the explosion will be.<\/p>\n<p>China accounts for 40% of global chemical sales,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/10970-Experts-call-for-Paris-style-agreement-on-chemicals\">a figure<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;is expected to reach 50% by 2030.&nbsp;The avoidable tragedy at Xiangshui shows that&nbsp;China&rsquo;s regulators&nbsp;still have a long way to go to ensure that people surrounded by booming chemical industries nationwide do not have to live in fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tragedy in Xiangshui has placed the country&rsquo;s chemicals industry back in the spotlight, reports&nbsp;<strong>Karoline 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