News feedback: The potential safety hazard in Kowloon market is still
Through these two days of visits, the reporter discovered that the safety issues in the Kowloon Chemical Market in Chongqing, which has attracted extensive attention, remain, and even worse.
It is understood that in the chemical market of Jiulongpo District, which has been naturally formed in recent years, there are more than 100 companies that handle hazardous chemicals, and annual sales of various types of hazardous chemicals have reached 100,000 to 200,000 tons. Before 2002, these raw materials for hazardous chemicals were all stored in the Chongqing Qinghua Company warehouse, 601 warehouse, Chongqing Chemical Bureau warehouse and PetroChina Funiuxi warehouse. After 2003, two of the warehouses were successively banned by the fire department. The other two were also converted to petrol, diesel or no longer stored externally. As a result, a considerable number of enterprises in the market illegally stored raw materials for hazardous chemicals in unlicensed stores, abandoned factories or some private depots. In addition, with the urban transformation of Yuzhong District, most of Chongqing chemical business households have concentrated in Shipingqiao District, making this place a market for the purchase and sale of chemical raw materials and products. The relevant departments verified that only 108 business households operating hazardous chemicals such as paints and thinners in the Shipingqiao area. Among them, there are 49 business licenses without hazardous chemicals business licenses, and 11 others are unlicensed. Many business households are illegally stored in stores or transferred underground to store them.
According to relevant personnel of the Jiulongpo District Chemical Industry Association, in the past six months or more, they have inspected more than 100 dangerous chemical companies and outlets in the market and found that these enterprises do not have a standardized dedicated hazardous chemicals storage warehouse. There are hundreds of them. Dangerous chemicals are piled up in some houses. In the street on the back of the Shiping Bridge, reporters saw that some brick-and-wood structure houses, unnamed hazardous chemicals 'warehouses' and recycling stations were piled with raw materials for hazardous materials. The locals claimed that these broken houses were abandoned factories of some enterprises. Today, some chemical companies have become 'warehouses', and some companies also rent private houses as warehouses. Many 'warehouses' have no safety warning signs. According to an employee at a hazardous chemicals recycling station, some of the remaining hazardous materials will be dumped into nearby ditch or wasteland.
Shi Ping Bridge is the traffic center leading to Chongqing's main downtown area. The traffic arteries leading to various places are almost all hazardous chemicals raw materials shops, which are about two to three hundred meters long. Shops are filled with paint, thinners, and glue. The reporter noticed that there were 'no fireworks' and 'far from fire' on the raw material of each barrel, but it was surprising that many dealers actually smoked on the scene, and the cigarette butts on the ground still risked Mars. The reporter also discovered that some small transport vehicles without hazardous chemicals transportation permit signs waited in line. There are dozens of shops along the street and nearby residential areas.
It is understood that under strong security pressure, the Jiulongpo District Government has convened commercial committees, safety supervision, industry and commerce and fire control departments to discuss the remediation plan, and decided to plan and determine a dedicated and standard hazardous chemicals storage warehouse before the end of the year. At the same time, it also decided to inspect the chemical companies in the area, investigate and banned illegal business units, supervise business households to carry out anti-explosion treatment of electrical appliances and lines in the outlets, remove living facilities in shops, and prohibit the illegal storage of hazardous chemicals in stores, and gradually Relocate some chemical companies. However, 'before the end of the year' has arrived, and the above series of 'decisions' have not yet seen movement.