May 22, 2019
A prominent Chinese environmental group has called on chemicals multinationals to stop “cutting corners” by outsourcing business to Chinese suppliers that violate safety regulations after an investigation into a deadly explosion at a factory in March. In a new study, …
April 8, 2019
Authorities are shutting down an eastern China industrial park after 78 people were killed last month by a chemical explosion, the city government said Friday. Local departments have met to discuss how to eliminate chemical plants with low safety standards …
April 1, 2019
A plant explosion in China’s Jiangsu province killed seven people on Sunday, authorities said, the second deadly blast in the province this month as Beijing begins a nationwide industrial safety inspection campaign. The blast involved a container of scrap metal …
March 25, 2019
Rescuers in eastern China pulled a survivor from rubble early on Saturday [March 23], two days after a massive explosion at a pesticide plant killed at least 64 people, flattening nearby buildings and shattering windows more than a mile away. …
June 3, 2013
China’s President Xi Jinping ordered an investigation into the cause of a fire at a poultry plant in northeastern China that killed at least 119 people, the nation’s deadliest blaze in 13 years. Xi and Premier Li Keqiang asked the …