The city of Changzhou has strengthened the protection over the Yangtze River by relocating or shutting down chemical plants along the Yangtze to carve out a new path featuring high quality, sustainable, eco-friendly and green development.
STA Pharmaceutical is a new drug research, development and production center that have recently settled in Changzhou Binjiang Economic Development Zone.
No one could image that the neat and green factory area used to be a traditional chemical zone hampered by environmental pollution and safety hazards.
The low productivity and high environmental risk have been fundamentally changed by the presence of a number of high-tech industries.
Zhang Feng, deputy CEO in charge of API production, STA Pharmaceutical
Our factory is a closed factory with an exhaust system, a pollutant control system, a collection system for waste gas from the pollutant treatment process, and a control system to control the system to better control the environment.
Active transformation and green development is a huge change made by Changzhou Binjiang Economic Development Zone.
As early as 2012, Changzhou Binjiang Economic Development Zone successively introduced professional supervision teams to comprehensively clean up and rectify scattered and polluting chemical enterprises by establishing a green assessment mechanism.
By the end of 2018, the Binjiang Economic Development Zone had shut down and relocated 70 chemical plants, eliminated 506 polluting enterprises and regulated 1329 enterprises, enabling it to be placed 12th on the national chemical industry zone ranking.
There are 30 chemical enterprises along the Changzhou segment of the Yangtze River. Most of them have been in operation for more than 10 years, hence the aging of equipment and facilities and the low output efficiency.
Changzhou has issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Protection of Yangtze River" to speed up the elimination of low-quality and low-efficiency chemical enterprises, and formulate and implement policies for encouraging the relocation of enterprises along the Yangtze River
It is stipulated that before 2021, Changzhou Binjiang Economic Development Zone will shut down and transfer more than 20 chemical enterprises that are located within 1 km of the Yangtze River. The enterprises that will continue to be in operation will be required to upgrade in accordance with the requirements of green factories and clean production.
