Binhai New Area in north China's Tianjin Municipality has completely overhauled 583 dangerous chemicals companies, a year after a deadly explosion.
All the hazardous chemicals were cleared Sunday from a solar panel factory that was destroyed by the worst tornado and hailstorm to hit east China's Jiangsu Province in decades.
The Binhai New Area in Tianjin has launched safety inspections on companies that handle dangerous chemicals or goods following warehouse blasts that caused grave casualties in mid-August.
Beijing has tightened safety checks on companies that work with chemicals after two explosions at a warehouse in neighboring Tianjin last week, the local work safety bureau said.
Beijing has tightened safety checks on companies that work with chemicals after two explosions at a warehouse in neighboring Tianjin last week, the local work safety bureau said.
Thousands of rescuers, soldiers and medics have been mobilized to search for the missing, clean up toxic chemicals and treat the injured after last week's Tianjin explosions.
The dangerous chemicals stored in the warehouses that exploded on Wednesday night in Tianjin Port can not be determined at the moment, authorities said at a press conference on Friday.
The special coordinator overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria said on Wednesday that the end-of-June deadline for the total destruction of the program was still achievable.
Citing complexity, security and weather, the head of the joint UN-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission charged with ridding the munitions from Syria said Wednesday though the operation has been delayed, it is expected to meet its June deadline.
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