Jiangsu Jiangyan spends 800 million yuan to shut down a chemical industrial park!

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Jiangsu Jiangyan spends 800 million yuan to shut down a chemical industrial park! Author/Source: WeilINK Chemicals Date: 2019-09-03 Clicks: 80 With a loud crash, the second ammonia synthesis cooling tower at Jiangyan Fertilizer Company in Jiangyan Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu Province, collapsed! It is reported that Jiangyan Fertilizer Company was established 20 years ago as a reorganized version of the original Jiangyan Fertilizer Factory, covering an area of 200,000 square meters. The two cooling towers in the company’s ammonia synthesis project are iconic structures in West Jiangyan with a history of over 40 years. On January 21 this year, Jiangyan District demolished the first cooling tower on a targeted basis. Today, with both tall towers brought down, it marks the official departure of the chemical industry cluster from the historical landscape of Jiangyan. As early as 2007, with approval from higher authorities, the Jiangyan Economic Development Zone established a chemical industrial zone, covering an area of nearly 1,000 mu. At the time of its establishment, the chemical industry cluster was located in a remote area of the development zone, which directly enabled thousands of local people to find employment right near their homes. In recent years, as the urban area of Jiangyan has expanded westward and merged with Hailing, several ecological residential communities have emerged in the surrounding area, turning the development zone into a new city in the western part of Jiangyan. Residents moving into the new city have higher expectations regarding the surrounding environment and a better quality of life, making it urgent to demolish and relocate the chemical industrial park. Given the multiple pressures of maintaining economic growth, ensuring food supply, and preserving stability, closing chemical industrial parks would result in a sharp decline in tax revenues, and compensation of nearly 800 million yuan would also be required; the difficulties and obstacles are too great. Should it be “wait and see” or “act immediately”? There have been differing opinions regarding the “streamlining” measures in Jiangyan. “The entire region must rise to the challenge and, with greater determination, higher standards, and more stringent measures, make every effort to advance the closure, relocation, transformation, and upgrading of chemical manufacturing enterprises in the development zone. ” At an important meeting held at the end of 2017, Li Wenbiao, the secretary of the Jiangyan District Party Committee, made such a request. We must see it through to the end; with firm determination and concrete actions, we shall launch a determined campaign to eliminate outdated production capacities and achieve green and sustainable development. Jiangyan clearly set forth the requirements of \"comprehensive relocation, systematic renovation, focusing on key areas, and completion within a set time frame.\" It established a leading group as well as six working groups responsible for implementation, evaluation and coordination, demolition, and employee resettlement, thereby defining the responsible parties. All district leaders took charge and provided direct supervision, while the 11 responsible units sent their best personnel to the site to carry out their respective tasks. Less than two months later, all 13 projects from the 8 shut-down enterprises were signed. Since 2017, Jiangyan has set higher goals for itself and proactively included all 81 chemical enterprises with an output value of 8.86 billion yuan and tax revenues of 439 million yuan in the scope of restructuring efforts; as a result, 28 of these enterprises have been shut down or relocated.