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SW municipality sets out to remove hidden dangers after chlorine leak
2004-04-20
China Daily
Southwest China's Chongqing municipality has launched a large-scale inspection of chemical enterprises after the disastrous chlorine leak to remove any hidden dangers that might cause another such accident.
The Chongqing Municipal Administration of Production Safety organized experts to make an inspection plan for the chemical industry of the municipality.
According to the plan, 46 key places to be inspected are located at sites with hidden hazards and 19 enterprises manufacturing risky chemical products will be brought under especially rigorous examination.
The municipal government also decided to move 18 serious polluting enterprises out of the urban area by the end of 2005, of which nine are chemical enterprises.
Tianyuan Chemical Industry Plant, where the chlorine leak took place on April 15, too, will be moved from the urban area of Chongqing to its suburban Wanzhou district by 2005.
The tragic chlorine leak left nine local people dead or missing and three others injured and prompted more than 150,000 people to evacuate from the surrounding areas last weekend.
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