Inventory of PX projects that have been stopped by the masses in China in recent years

On May 10, 2016, amidst turbulent opposition from citizens, the Longkou Municipal Government of Yantai City, Shandong Province halted the EIA work of the Yulong Petrochemical Industrial Base
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Longkou City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Yantai City, Shandong Province.
In the first public announcement by the Environmental Protection Bureau of Longkou City on the environment of the petrochemical industry base, we found that the Yulong Petrochemical Industry Base is located in the west of Longkou City, with a total planned area of ​​about 50.
4 square meters.
Km, the planned construction of 40 million tons/year of oil refining, 2.
2 million tons/year of supporting ethylene, 6 million tons/year of joint aromatics and its mid-downstream industrial chain projects, will be implemented in phases
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The Yulong Petrochemical Industrial Base is a cooperation project between China Nanshan Group and Singapore Jurong International.
In June 2014, the two parties signed a memorandum of cooperation, planning to learn from Singapore’s experience in establishing a petrochemical industrial park on the artificially reclaimed Jurong Island.
Reclamation in the Bohai Bay area of ​​China to build a petrochemical industry base
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Singapore’s Jurong Island is the third largest petroleum refining center in the world.
It is located off the southwestern coast of Singapore, only 5 kilometers away from the main city of Singapore.
The island’s 370,000 tons/year PX equipment and residential areas have been put into operation by Exxon Mobil Corporation.
The distance is less than 1 km
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Because it has never had a major pollution accident, the Jiangsu Provincial Development and Reform Commission website has listed it as a great example of "chemical industry can coexist with blue sky and blue sea"
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The main reason why the masses are directly targeting the Longkou government is that it is difficult for the citizens of Longkou to tolerate a petrochemical project that may bring greater harm and threats when the old environmental problems have not been properly resolved
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Moreover, more citizens believe that the current environmental pollution has affected the health of residents in Longkou City
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Due to the rapid economic development, people are more concerned about their own health problems.
Petrochemical projects can be described as a mouse crossing the street.
The "PX projects" in these years are worthy of people's attention.
The author summarizes the PX projects that have been stopped by the masses in recent years
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Xiamen PX project incident In 2007, Xiamen City, Fujian Province carried out a protest against the paraxylene (PX) project planned to be built on the Haicang Peninsula
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The project is invested by Taiwanese-funded enterprise Tenglong Aromatics (Xiamen) Co.
, Ltd.
, and will be built in Haicang District with a planned annual production of 800,000 tons of paraxylene (PX) chemical plant
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Dragon Aromatics (Xiamen) Co.
, Ltd.
jointly established by the energy-rich and Beverly Holdings Limited Finance Limited
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The factory is located in the Southern Industrial Park of Haicang Investment Zone, Xiamen
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The project has been included in China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" paraxylene industry plan
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Fearing that the chemical plant would endanger people’s health after the completion of the chemical plant, the project was jointly opposed by a hundred members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
The citizens collectively boycotted the project until the Xiamen Municipal Government announced the suspension of the project.
The progress of the PX incident attracted public attention
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The opposition to the PX project in Zhenhai District of Ningbo City occurred in October 2012 in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, China.
It started because some villagers in Zhenhai District collectively petitioned for the demolition of the Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Integration Project, and later because the project contained paraxylene.
(English abbreviation PX) production equipment, on October 25th and 26th caused a large-scale road closure protest in Zhenhai District
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Ningbo no longer builds the PX project: On the 27th and 28th, the protests spread to Tianyi Square in the center of Ningbo and the Ningbo Municipal Government.
More than 50 people were controlled by the police.
In the end, the Ningbo Municipal Government promised not to build the PX project.
Stop advancing the entire refining and chemical integration project
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Chengdu's opposition to the PX project May 4 to 5, 2013, a series of opposition activities carried out by Chengdu citizens against the Chengdu PX project
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After the petrochemical project was strongly opposed by the public, the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee and Government stated on April 29, 2013: “For the Pengzhou petrochemical project, the government insists that no enterprise production is allowed before the legal formal acceptance, and the acceptance process will affect the society.
Make it public and invite the public to participate
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" Some people from the private sector called for a "walk" activity in Tianfu Square and Jiuyan Bridge on May 4.
Due to the police's stability maintenance operations, the protests failed to proceed smoothly
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Kunming City's Opposition to the PX Project In May 2013, Kunming people opposed the mass incident caused by the 10 million tons oil refining project in Caopu Industrial Park, Anning City
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On April 18, Kunming's local environmental organizations "Green Watershed" and "Green Kunming" conducted the first on-site investigation of the Anning Petrochemical Project
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It is believed that in the process of project advancement, insufficient information disclosure and lack of public information communication channels are the government's shortcomings
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The local government and people from the industrial park also pledged to pay close attention to this project during the discussion
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Maoming City’s protest against the PX project.
A large number of people in front of the Maoming City Party Committee Building in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, the People’s Republic of China initiated several days of protests and demonstrations against the paraxylene (PX) chemical project since March 30, 2014.
Participate The number of people ranges from a few thousand to tens of thousands
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On March 31, the official media issued a press release stating that many people were injured in the incident, but no one died
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On April 1, the protests extended to the provincial capital, and about 300 people held a march in support of Maoming’s anti-PX near the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Guangzhou
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On April 3, more than 20 people held a demonstration in Shenzhen
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The protest of the masses against the Longkou project is still a continuation of the game between economic development and residents’ health and safety.
The key to the problem is whether the environmental impact assessment of the petrochemical project is in place; however, due to frequent environmental problems, the masses have also lost patience with the petrochemical project.
EIA has no room for the relevant departments to "slowly"
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If you want to break the deadlock, you need people on both sides of the problem who believe in professionals to do professional things
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