Zhou Nannan, Chief Engineer of the Institute of Chemical Engineering, was invited to attend the Changsha Municipal Expert Symposium on the Hazardous Chemicals Sector.
On May 21, Chen Bozhang, Deputy Secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, chaired a symposium with experts in the field of hazardous chemicals. The meeting aimed to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on coordinating development and security, fully carry out the work requirements of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, and the Municipal Party Committee, emphasize proactive prevention, adopt a problem‑oriented approach, and solicit, face-to-face, the views and suggestions of expert representatives. The session sought to strengthen safety oversight in the hazardous chemicals sector and promote the industry’s sustained, sound development. Relevant municipal leaders and heads of relevant departments attended the meeting. Zhou Nannan, Chief Engineer and Deputy General Manager of the Chemical Research Institute, was invited as an expert to participate and deliver remarks.
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On May 21, Chen Bozhang, Deputy Secretary of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, chaired a symposium with experts in the field of hazardous chemicals. The meeting aimed to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on coordinating development and security, fully carry out the work requirements of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, and the Municipal Party Committee, emphasize proactive prevention, adopt a problem‑oriented approach, and solicit, face-to‑face, the views and suggestions of expert representatives. The discussions sought to strengthen safety oversight in the hazardous chemicals sector and promote the industry’s sustained, sound development. Relevant municipal leaders and heads of relevant departments attended the meeting. Zhou Nannan, Chief Engineer and Deputy General Manager of the Chemical Research Institute, was invited as an expert to attend and deliver remarks.
At the symposium, expert representatives from universities, enterprises, and industrial parks in the hazardous chemicals sector put forward suggestions and recommendations on pressing issues such as end-to-end safety management, project safety design, the development of the chemical industry, hazardous‑chemical storage, and enterprise production safety.
Zhou Nannan, drawing on his professional experience and the Chemical Research Institute’s expertise in industry‑wide and chemical‑park planning, project design, safety assessment, and related areas, stated: First, we must adopt a systematic approach to ensuring the safe development of the chemical industry. Top-level scientific planning, with comprehensive consideration of safe development, strictly adheres to the construction standards and certification management measures for chemical industrial parks, as well as the guidelines for identifying and addressing safety risks, thereby achieving a D‑level low‑risk classification for these parks and systematically addressing the overall safe development of areas where chemical enterprises are concentrated. Second, ensure high-quality safety design for chemical projects. Project safety design and safety assessment constitute the “first line of defense” for preventing and mitigating serious and extremely serious accidents. Priority should be given to ensuring the inherent safety of projects. …design aspects such as risk-based tiered control and the principle of coordination and uniformity; during safety design, particular attention is given to site selection and layout, process safety design, equipment and piping safety, and occupational hazard prevention, … Intelligentization and emergency design, among other aspects. Third, effectively leverage the role of project safety assessments. Leverage the role of safety assessments in effectively identifying potential hazards and harmful factors within systems, proposing safety countermeasures, and providing a basis for safety management decision-making, with a focus on addressing common issues such as discrepancies between safety assessment reports and on-site conditions, the disconnect between risk identification and preventive measures, inaccuracies and incompleteness in quantitative risk assessments, and the failure to identify missing safety facilities. Suggestion Relevant industry authorities shall ensure that projects are designed with intrinsic safety in accordance with industry standards and specifications, that safety assessments are thorough and accurate, and that the competencies and professional ethics of personnel are strengthened.
The meeting noted that, It is essential to optimize spatial planning, rigorously control entry at the source, and further enhance the carrying capacity of industrial parks and the level of intensive industrial development. Gradually encourage enterprises in the hazardous chemicals sector to relocate into these parks, while steadily advancing their relocation and transformation. Enterprises must be held fully accountable, with efforts to conduct routine hazard identification and rectification deepened and made more effective; accelerate automation upgrades, promote standardization, and fortify the barrier of source‑level prevention and control. Strengthen specialized regulatory oversight by leveraging digital and intelligent tools to bolster safety management, continuously elevate the sophistication of smart supervision, intensify talent development, and harness the role of think tanks, thereby establishing a new, end‑to‑end safety‑regulation framework characterized by “unified sensing, unified early warning, unified dispatch, and closed-loop response.” Deepen collaborative coordination: reinforce grassroots grid‑based inspection and screening networks, refine inter‑departmental joint enforcement mechanisms, explore the establishment of a whistleblower system, ensure smooth online and offline reporting channels, and build a participatory governance model involving all sectors of society, thus pooling powerful collective efforts to combat illegal activities and violations.
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