"8-12" accident accelerates Tianjin chemical enterprises "south migration"

China Coatings Network
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August 21, Tianjin Development Zone (Southport Industrial Zone) Management Committee and Tianjin Energy and Chemical E-Commerce Trading Center Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, 22 energy and chemical enterprises will be stationed in Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone. This is the first major project signing in Tianjin Development Zone after the "8-12" accident in Tianjin Port. On August 19th, Tianjin Mayor Huang Xingguo said at a press conference on the same day that chemical enterprises in Binhai New Area would be concentrated in the Nangang Industrial Zone, 25 kilometers from the center of Binhai New Area. "The transfer of Tianjin chemical industry to Southport began a few years ago. Such as Tianjin chemical plant, Dwat chemical plant, etc. are among the relocation, but because of incomplete facilities, personnel placement, relocation funds and other issues, these enterprises have not moved. "An old employee of Tianjin Chemical Enterprise told reporters. Reporters also learned that the Tianjin chemical industry to south port transfer, has long been reflected in the Binhai New Area, "12th Five-Year Plan", "13th Five-Year Plan." In other words, relocation is planned. And the occurrence of this explosion accident, will undoubtedly accelerate the Binhai New Area chemical enterprises "south migration." "According to our '12th Five-Year Plan' and '13th Five-Year Plan', the layout of the Nangang Chemical (Industrial) Zone in Tianjin is comparable to that of Singapore's Jurong Planning, and public safety islands are to be built in a unified and now start-up." Huang Xingguo describes the Southport Industrial Zone in this way. Tianjin city "because of the port, the city Xinggang Xing", is promoting the "two-city double port" development model, that is, the central city and Binhai New Area as the two cities, to the north port area (Tianjin port) and the south port area as the double port. Under the guidance of the idea of "shuangcheng and double port", Tianjin heavy chemical industry began to gather south, mainly to the Southport industrial zone located in Binhai New Area. Tianjin Industrial Layout Plan (2008-2020) clearly puts forward petrochemicals as one of the city's eight dominant pillar industries, and puts forward the idea of industrial layout of heavy chemical industry. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 5000 chemical enterprises in The Tianjin municipal area, of which Binhai New Area is home to nearly 1,300 enterprises of all kinds. In Tianjin's planning, Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone will bear the burden of "Big Petrochemical". Public information shows that the planned area of the Nangang Industrial Zone is 200 square kilometers, 20 kilometers from Tianjin Port and 45 kilometers from Tianjin City, which is far from the urban area. Southport Industrial Zone to refining ethylene as a leader to build the petrochemical industry chain, the goal is to use mature regional development and enterprise service experience, to build a world-class energy and chemical industry base. As of December 2014, Nangang has signed 50 projects with a total investment of about 142.8 billion yuan, including Shell, PetroChina, Sinopec, China National Offshore Oil, China Chemical and other well-known enterprises. But as the old employee of the chemical enterprise said, "planning is good, but action is slow". This year has been the "12th Five-Year Plan" the last year, although the intention to sign a lot of enterprises, but the Southport Industrial Zone actually resident enterprises are not many. Unlike the lively, factory-lined scene around Tianjin Port, most of the projects in the area are in infrastructure and everything is still developing. "The previous plan was mainly for chemical production enterprises to settle in Southport. In fact, there are quite a number of dangerous logistics enterprises in Tianjin, whether these enterprises can move past is debatable, because in terms of port throughput capacity, the South Port Area and Tianjin Port District compared to there is still a large gap. One person familiar with the matter said. In addition, hardware construction is still under way, the road from Hanyu to Southport is often congested is also an indisputable fact. "Construction needs to continue, but after the explosion, the pace of relocation of chemical companies, including dangerous logistics companies, should accelerate." The person said. According to reporters, the SouthPort Industrial Zone container services mainly rely on Tianjin Port. In 2014, Tianjin Port achieved cargo throughput of more than 540 million tons, container throughput of more than 14 million TS, with Shanghai Port, Qingdao Port and other top 10 ports in the world. Since its establishment, the Southport Industrial Zone has been focusing on enhancing port capacity. Southport Industrial Zone land area of 162 square kilometers, sea area of 38 square kilometers, has been built in the east and west of the two port areas, of which the West Port area for petrochemical port area. At present, Tianjin Southport LNG project and other marking projects have completed the main construction. According to the planning layout of Tianjin, Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone will welcome more chemical enterprises. Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone, which is about to undertake the Tianjin chemical industry, is constantly improving its security soft power while focusing on hardware construction. After the "8-12" accident in Tianjin Port, the district immediately carried out the safety inspection work of the hazardd enterprises. Last week, the tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone Management Committee led by the head of the Tianjin Nangang Safety Supervision Bureau, environmental protection bureau, emergency command center, public security sub-bureau, fire brigade and other five departments in the region Taio Petrochemical, ring-jet logistics two units carried out a joint inspection.