Tianjin Blasts: Latest Developments

[NiceGuy]

But how can some chemical barrels create a big black hole wt sock waves like a 2,000kg bomb ??

 

[William Hung]

But how can some chemical barrels create a big black hole wt sock waves like a 2,000kg bomb ??

It’s all chemicals bro, containers of them. Look at all these fishes getting Jonestown’d in a nearby river:

Photos: ‘Massive’ Amounts of Dead Fish Wash Ashore in Tianjin - China Real Time Report - WSJ

@Tractor are these fish deaths real?

 

[BHAN85]

But your Chinese buddies have already said they think the U.S is responsible.lool. As if the U.S will sought to slow China's economy by causing an small (by Chinese standard) explosion in a port, China has had farrrrrrrr more deadlier/bigger explosions/accidents than this one. So don't see the point of U.S just adding another small accident to this. Makes no sense AT ALL. Or maybe the U.S bribed Chinese local government officials so they can cause a massive explosion in their own seaport?

"think" isn't make official statements.
USA make officials statements without show proves, like hacking accusations.
China gov doesnt make nothing like that with this fact.

Is it a small accident? What blasts are bigger and deadlier than this one? And the same day of a Yuan devalution that it caused a mess in western markets?

If it was a sabotage, it's not only a way to slow down China economy, it's a terrorist action, a way to spread fear and avoid future RMB devaluations, and in that are biggers experts your American buddies .

 

[mike2000 is back]

Hey I just agreed with your previous post. You did say your government will shut down all factories. Islam is dominating Europe now don't you agree?

If we had even half of China's record of industrial accidents and deaths , then yes our government will shut down all these factories until the real causes of these frequent massive accidents/deaths can be determined and proper action taken to make sure it never happens again, and yes severe health and safety measures will be implemented and to make sure all factories respect/abide by the rules. Any little disregard for health and safety will be heavily punished to discourage any other factory/conpany bosses from cutting corners/disregarding safety and putting money over human life. You can bet that yes our government will do just that else they will face a public backlash so big that they might lose their seat in government.

For example , remember when our oil Company BP spilled oil in the gulf of mexico close to U.S,though there was no deaths whatsoever, do you know the amount of fined they received from the U.S governement? BP hit with record $18.7 billion fine over Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill - Business News - Business - The Independent

Now if this happened in China how much fine do you think they will be fined? Maybe couple millions at best.lol

In short, government should always make sure that they supervise and implement safety laws. However i know accident do happen once in a while as we cant be 100% safe ever,so once in a while mistakes are bound to be made, but the government should make sure that it does it job well and minimize accidents/casualties as much as possible companies are fined and most of all HEAVY FINES in case mistakes/accident happen to set an example/dissuade any company from ever trying to cut corners/disregard safety measures. The BP example even though there was no deaths , is a good case study for Greedy companies who just care just about their profits. Good to Teach them a lesson so others fall in line. Else they will just continue. China should learn from this.


As for muslims....huh...you do know despite all the media hype that muslim make up just 4.8% of Britiains population right? China is just below us in this regard as its muslim population is 2% of its population i.e about 26 million ( about half of britains entire population). Its ok my man.

 

[TaiShang]

Exclusive: Witnessing Biochemical Emergency Operation at Tianjin Blast Site

A nuclear biochemical emergency rescue team, mainly composed of anti-chemical corps from the Beijing Garrison, has been busy cleaning up the core areas of the Tianjin blast site over the past seven days.

The 15 members of the team, who entered the blast site on August 13, the second day after the massive explosions, have encountered huge challenges as they have had to work under difficult and even dangerous conditions.

The team, divided into five groups of three, have begun categorizing and labeling the containers at the sites.

Apparently, the biggest challenge that the team has faced so far is the chemicals left at the explosion sites. Some of these chemicals will explode if they are mixed with water.

Exclusive: Witnessing Biochemical Emergency Operation at Tianjin Blast Site - People's Daily Online






Rescuers and machines clean up burnt vehicles in the core blast area in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)


Rescuers and machines clean up burnt vehicles in the core blast area in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)


Rescuers and machines clean up burnt vehicles in the core blast area in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)


Rescuers and machines clean up burnt vehicles in the core blast area in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

 

[Tractor]

Rescuers and machines clean up burnt vehicles in the core blast area in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 20, 2015. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

Looks very professional in destruction though the scene really awful.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Contamination of water bodies in tainjin is now showing up:

 

[Carlosa]

AP Exclusive: China blast site owner on state firm's board
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-china-blast-owner-state-firms-board-142818071--finance.html
SHANGHAI (AP) — The man unveiled as principal owner of the warehouses at the center of deadly blasts in Tianjin also is on the board of a state-owned company that is ultimately controlled by the same powerful entity investigating the explosions, an Associated Press review of public documents found.

Corporate filings show that Yu Xuewei, the silent majority shareholder of Ruihai International Logistics, sits on the board of directors of a subsidiary of China Sinochem, one of the country's most influential conglomerates. Like other large state companies, Sinochem is controlled by the State Council, the central authority overseeing the investigation into last week's explosions at Ruihai's chemical warehouses that killed at least 114 people and displaced thousands.

Yu's connections hint at the extent of his political network and showcase the complexity of China's political system, in which the entity running an investigation can be linked to the company it is investigating. Major state-owned Chinese companies often are accused of ignoring safety and other regulations, especially Cabinet-level enterprises whose chief executives have a higher status in the ruling Communist Party hierarchy than the regulators who are supposed to oversee them.

The subsidiary where Yu serves as a director, Tianjin Port Sinochem Dangerous Goods Logistics Co., also has been accused of violating safety standards at its own hazmat warehouses. The environmental group Greenpeace released an investigation this week saying Tianjin Port Sinochem and its sister company, Sinochem Tianjin Binhai Logistic Corp., operated hazardous chemical warehouses less than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) from a major highway, schools and residences, in violation of Chinese safety laws.

China Sinochem has tried to distance itself from Ruihai. Two days after the explosions it published a statement acknowledging that former staff members worked at Ruihai, but disavowing any deeper links. Sinochem wrote that Ruihai "has no relationship with Sinochem or its affiliated companies" and that former employees had "all long terminated employment" with Sinochem and its affiliates.

Current corporate records, however, show that Yu was a director Tianjin Port Sinochem even after he founded Ruihai. Those records, filed with the Administration for Industry and Commerce in Tianjin, were last updated in February and no subsequent changes to the board have been recorded. The majority owner of Sinochem Logistics is Sinochem Tianjin Co., a subsidiary of China Sinochem, AIC records show.

Attempts to reach Sinochem for comment Thursday were unsuccessful. No one at Tianjin Port Sinochem answered the phone. Sinochem Tianjin Binhai Logistic Corp. referred questions to the Sinochem Group. Calls, emails and a text message to Sinochem's spokesman were not returned.

Yu admitted to using his political influence to get around safety norms in an interview published Wednesday by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, which was granted exclusive access to him in detention. He said he masked his affiliation with Ruihai by registering his 55 percent stake in the name of his wife's cousin.

The now-destroyed Ruihai warehouses violated Chinese law because they were less than 600 meters (2,000 feet) from a large housing complex, highway and light rail station — and for other reasons. Ruihai was licensed to warehouse hazardous chemicals only through Oct. 16, 2014, according to Administration for Industry and Commerce records. Ruihai obtained a port license in June 2015 that again allowed them to work with dangerous chemicals, but in the interim handled hazmat without a license, according to Xinhua. Ruihai also failed to file annual reports in 2013 and 2014, according to its filings.

Yu owns Ruihai with Dong Shexuan, whose father used to be chief of police at Tianjin Port and put his shares in the name of a schoolmate, according to Xinhua. Both men have been detained by police.

Dong told Xinhua, "My connections cover police and fire, and Yu Xuewei's connections cover work safety, port management, customs, maritime affairs, environmental protection."

Sinochem, founded one year after the People's Republic of China itself was born, has interests in energy, agriculture, chemicals, real estate and financial services. Sinochem said in its latest annual report that it has 50,000 employees and more than 300 subsidiaries.

The State Council, China's cabinet, has set up a panel to investigate the accident, which has sparked public outrage at regulatory and safety lapses and gross chemical contamination in one of China's largest cities.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the political response has spiraled to the top levels of power. President Xi Jinping and other top leaders of the ruling Communist Party put out a statement calling the blasts "a profound lesson paid with blood" and vowed to punish those responsible, the People's Daily reported Friday.

The government has been struggling to manage signs of deep-seated frustration about the powerful and well-connected using their status to flout rules and endanger the public. Media coverage has been tightly monitored and censorship of social media commentary has surged. Many of those impacted were middle-class homeowners who had bought into Beijing's vision of Tianjin as a rising economic gateway to China's northeast.

"If our homes are gone how can we have the faith to support and love the party or the country?" said Niu Guijun, who purchased a home near the blast site in 2013.

Ruihai's links to the State Council illustrate the overlapping corporate, political and regulatory interests that are the norm in China's one-party system.

"Who tries to monitor how the industry works — regulators — government officers who develop safety policy, and also the commercial business owners, all these interests are mixed," said Fu King-wa, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center. "I think a lot of people find this a problem, but there's no channel to try and execute reform in a political manner."

Yu and the reported frontman for his shares in Ruihai, Li Liang, played roles in at least four other companies, according to Chinese and Hong Kong corporate filings.

Though Yu Xuewei's name does not appear in Ruihai's corporate filings in China, Hong Kong records show that he set up a company called Hong Kong Ruihai International Logistics Co. Ltd. in January 2013, less than two months after Ruihai Logistics was registered in Tianjin. Many mainland companies also register in Hong Kong to facilitate trade financing.

AIC records also name Yu as a board member of Tianjin Henglu Biopharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd., which was set up in January 2014 to do development and consulting work and sell chemicals, though not hazardous ones.

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Associated Press video journalist Paul Traynor contributed to this report from Tianjin.

 

[mike2000 is back]

AP Exclusive: China blast site owner on state firm's board
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-china-blast-owner-state-firms-board-142818071--finance.html
SHANGHAI (AP) — The man unveiled as principal owner of the warehouses at the center of deadly blasts in Tianjin also is on the board of a state-owned company that is ultimately controlled by the same powerful entity investigating the explosions, an Associated Press review of public documents found.

Corporate filings show that Yu Xuewei, the silent majority shareholder of Ruihai International Logistics, sits on the board of directors of a subsidiary of China Sinochem, one of the country's most influential conglomerates. Like other large state companies, Sinochem is controlled by the State Council, the central authority overseeing the investigation into last week's explosions at Ruihai's chemical warehouses that killed at least 114 people and displaced thousands.

Yu's connections hint at the extent of his political network and showcase the complexity of China's political system, in which the entity running an investigation can be linked to the company it is investigating. Major state-owned Chinese companies often are accused of ignoring safety and other regulations, especially Cabinet-level enterprises whose chief executives have a higher status in the ruling Communist Party hierarchy than the regulators who are supposed to oversee them.

The subsidiary where Yu serves as a director, Tianjin Port Sinochem Dangerous Goods Logistics Co., also has been accused of violating safety standards at its own hazmat warehouses. The environmental group Greenpeace released an investigation this week saying Tianjin Port Sinochem and its sister company, Sinochem Tianjin Binhai Logistic Corp., operated hazardous chemical warehouses less than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) from a major highway, schools and residences, in violation of Chinese safety laws.

China Sinochem has tried to distance itself from Ruihai. Two days after the explosions it published a statement acknowledging that former staff members worked at Ruihai, but disavowing any deeper links. Sinochem wrote that Ruihai "has no relationship with Sinochem or its affiliated companies" and that former employees had "all long terminated employment" with Sinochem and its affiliates.

Current corporate records, however, show that Yu was a director Tianjin Port Sinochem even after he founded Ruihai. Those records, filed with the Administration for Industry and Commerce in Tianjin, were last updated in February and no subsequent changes to the board have been recorded. The majority owner of Sinochem Logistics is Sinochem Tianjin Co., a subsidiary of China Sinochem, AIC records show.

Attempts to reach Sinochem for comment Thursday were unsuccessful. No one at Tianjin Port Sinochem answered the phone. Sinochem Tianjin Binhai Logistic Corp. referred questions to the Sinochem Group. Calls, emails and a text message to Sinochem's spokesman were not returned.

Yu admitted to using his political influence to get around safety norms in an interview published Wednesday by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, which was granted exclusive access to him in detention. He said he masked his affiliation with Ruihai by registering his 55 percent stake in the name of his wife's cousin.

The now-destroyed Ruihai warehouses violated Chinese law because they were less than 600 meters (2,000 feet) from a large housing complex, highway and light rail station — and for other reasons. Ruihai was licensed to warehouse hazardous chemicals only through Oct. 16, 2014, according to Administration for Industry and Commerce records. Ruihai obtained a port license in June 2015 that again allowed them to work with dangerous chemicals, but in the interim handled hazmat without a license, according to Xinhua. Ruihai also failed to file annual reports in 2013 and 2014, according to its filings.

Yu owns Ruihai with Dong Shexuan, whose father used to be chief of police at Tianjin Port and put his shares in the name of a schoolmate, according to Xinhua. Both men have been detained by police.

Dong told Xinhua, "My connections cover police and fire, and Yu Xuewei's connections cover work safety, port management, customs, maritime affairs, environmental protection."

Sinochem, founded one year after the People's Republic of China itself was born, has interests in energy, agriculture, chemicals, real estate and financial services. Sinochem said in its latest annual report that it has 50,000 employees and more than 300 subsidiaries.

The State Council, China's cabinet, has set up a panel to investigate the accident, which has sparked public outrage at regulatory and safety lapses and gross chemical contamination in one of China's largest cities.

In the aftermath of the disaster, the political response has spiraled to the top levels of power. President Xi Jinping and other top leaders of the ruling Communist Party put out a statement calling the blasts "a profound lesson paid with blood" and vowed to punish those responsible, the People's Daily reported Friday.

The government has been struggling to manage signs of deep-seated frustration about the powerful and well-connected using their status to flout rules and endanger the public. Media coverage has been tightly monitored and censorship of social media commentary has surged. Many of those impacted were middle-class homeowners who had bought into Beijing's vision of Tianjin as a rising economic gateway to China's northeast.

"If our homes are gone how can we have the faith to support and love the party or the country?" said Niu Guijun, who purchased a home near the blast site in 2013.

Ruihai's links to the State Council illustrate the overlapping corporate, political and regulatory interests that are the norm in China's one-party system.

"Who tries to monitor how the industry works — regulators — government officers who develop safety policy, and also the commercial business owners, all these interests are mixed," said Fu King-wa, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center. "I think a lot of people find this a problem, but there's no channel to try and execute reform in a political manner."

Yu and the reported frontman for his shares in Ruihai, Li Liang, played roles in at least four other companies, according to Chinese and Hong Kong corporate filings.

Though Yu Xuewei's name does not appear in Ruihai's corporate filings in China, Hong Kong records show that he set up a company called Hong Kong Ruihai International Logistics Co. Ltd. in January 2013, less than two months after Ruihai Logistics was registered in Tianjin. Many mainland companies also register in Hong Kong to facilitate trade financing.

AIC records also name Yu as a board member of Tianjin Henglu Biopharmaceutical Technology Co. Ltd., which was set up in January 2014 to do development and consulting work and sell chemicals, though not hazardous ones.

___

Associated Press video journalist Paul Traynor contributed to this report from Tianjin.

Interesting......however , to be honest there is nothing new in this news that the general public/people dont already know. Corruption, abuse of power, nepotism, disregard for health and safety by government officials/business men etc etc.......old news.

 

[vtnsx]

Way to kill off all the fishes in that river. With the manpower of 1.3 billion, it should take China 2 working days to clean up all that mess.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Im sure this is also done by the U.S , encouraged by its evil european buddies.

China blast hits Shandong chemical plant - BBC News

@Peter C ,@Carlosa , @LeveragedBuyout ,@Nihonjin1051 et al

 

[Aepsilons]

Im sure this is also done by the U.S , encouraged by its evil european buddies.

China blast hits Shandong chemical plant - BBC News

@Peter C ,@Carlosa , @LeveragedBuyout ,@Nihonjin1051 et al

tsk tsk

 

[Mr.Nair]

China rocked by second deadly chemical plant blast

 

[TaiShang]

Death toll from Tianjin warehouse blast rises to 123
| 2015-08-23

Rescuers clean up the debris at the blast site in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 23, 2015. The death toll from a warehouse blast in Tianjin has risen to 123, including 70 firefighters and seven policemen, authorities said at a press conference on Sunday. All victims' identities have been verified. (Xinhua/Yin Dongxun)

TIANJIN, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a warehouse blast in north China's Tianjin Municipality has risen to 123, including 70 firefighters and seven policemen, authorities said at a press conference on Sunday afternoon.

All victims' identities have been verified, according to Gong Jiansheng, deputy head of the city's publicity department.

Fifty people remain missing, including 34 firefighters and four policemen, nearly two weeks after powerful explosions ripped through the warehouses containing dangerous chemicals in Tianjin Port on the night of August 12, Gong said.

A total of 624 people are still hospitalized, including 44 critically or seriously injured. A total of 169 people have been discharged.

Zhang Guoxin, an official with the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said over 80 medical experts from across the nation along with 180 experts from Tianjin are trying their best to treat the injured.

Critical injuries included severe craniocerebral injuries and burns, Xi Xiuming, a medical expert, told the conference, adding that they still need time to recover.

The latest monitoring data showed that cyanide levels in samples from groundwater around the blast site and offshore sea waters were below toxic levels on Saturday, said Deng Xiaowen, head of the city environment monitoring center at the conference.

The water, containing cyanide levels higher than the national safety standard, was contained in the core area of the blast site and will be removed after being processed, he said.

Saturday's data from the five monitoring stations around the blast site revealed that the air quality in the area was good, Deng said, adding that no new contamination has been detected in the air so far.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Chinese work safety regulator Yang Dongliang is sacked - BBC News

Was sure .........corruption/personal links/quick money was to blame.