One dead, seven missing after blast at China petrochemical plant https://t.co/X5LDMefFsJ— The Daily Star (@DailyStarLeb) June 5, 2017
The Daily Star, Lebanon
written by Reuters staff
Monday June 5, 2017
SHANGHAI: An explosion rocked a petrochemical plant in the Chinese province of Shandong Monday, with one person killed and seven missing, the state news agency Xinhua reported.
The blast happened about an hour after midnight and triggered fires at the loading area of Linyi Jinyu Petrochemical Co. Ltd. in the Linyi Lingang Economic Development Zone, it said.
Six people were injured and the fire was being brought under control, Xinhua added.
The "responsible person" at the company which runs the plant had been detained, the news agency said, without giving details.
Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China, and anger over lax standards has grown after three decades of swift economic growth marred by incidents from mining disasters to factory fires.
Huge chemical explosions in the port city of Tianjin in 2015 killed more than 170 people. President Xi Jinping vowed after the Tianjin blasts that the authorities should learn the lessons paid for in blood.
South China Morning Post
written by Reuters staff
An explosion rocked a petrochemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong early on Monday, but the cause and extent of damage was unknown, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
The blast occurred at 1 am and triggered fires at the loading area of Linyi Jinyu Petrochemical Co in the Linyi Lingang Economic Development Zone, it said.
Deadly accidents are relatively common at industrial plants in China and anger over lax standards has grown after three decades of swift economic growth marred by incidents from mining disasters to factory fires.
Massive chemical explosions in the port city of Tianjin in 2015 killed more than 170 people.
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed after the Tianjin blasts that the authorities should learn the lessons paid for in blood.
South China Morning Post
China safety boss sacked over Tianjin blasts jailed for corruption
China safety boss sacked over Tianjin blasts jailed for corruption
written by AFP staff
Wednesday February 22, 2017
China’s former top work-safety official has been jailed for 15 years for corruption a year and a half after he was sacked over a giant industrial explosion that killed 173 people.
Yang Dongliang, now 63, was head of the State Administration of Work Safety in August 2015 when a series of mammoth blasts at a dangerous chemicals storage facility rocked the northern port of Tianjin.
Yang was quickly removed from his post after the disaster and subsequently placed under investigation for corruption.
A court in Beijing announced Yang’s sentence in a statement late Tuesday, saying that from 2002 to 2015 he took bribes totalling 28.5 million yuan (US$4.14 millon) in exchange for project contracts.
The court also said he bought a 270,000-yuan apartment in Tianjin in 1999 using government funds.
The statement, however, did not mention whether any of Yang’s corrupt activities were tied directly to the Tianjin disaster.
Yang was fined two million yuan and his ill-gotten assets confiscated.
Before taking up his national post, Yang was an official in Tianjin for 18 years, rising to become a vice-mayor.
Government corruption is rampant in China and President Xi Jinping launched a much-publicised anti-graft campaign after coming to power in 2012.
The drive has resulted in nearly 1.2 million people being punished by the end of 2016, a senior official said recently.
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