Social Impact of the 8-12 Tianjin Binhai New Area Explosion Accident

Light Rail Suspension

Affected by the fire accident near Donghai Road in Binhai New Area, Jinbin Light Rail Line 9 will stop operation on August 13, 2015, and apologizes to passengers affected by this. The re-opening time will be announced later.

Transportation control

The port of Tianjin has been put under martial law, with no outside vehicles allowed in, and the buildings into the port and China Customs have been blown up, littered with white powder and metal fragments.

The Ministry of Transport Road Network Center announced that, affected by the Tianjin Binhai warehouse explosion, Tianjin Binhai high-speed Nangang station entrance, the entrance to the Light Textile City station, Lingang station exit, Yongding Xinhe station exit traffic control, the coastal highway in Hebei manifold main line station in the direction of Tianjin traffic control, the resumption of time to be determined. Tianjin TV

August 12, 2015, a serious explosion occurred in Tianjin Binhai New Area, the scene situation is tragic. It has been more than ten hours since the incident, and Tianjin Satellite Television, the mainstream media in Tianjin, has been broadcasting Korean dramas, and a number of netizens have expressed their dissatisfaction with this.

On the afternoon of August 13, 2015, Tianjin Satellite TV's advertising operation center issued an announcement saying that "Baby Hello" (watch online) and "Love Defense Battle" (watch online), which were scheduled to air on Thursday, and "Love Positive Energy" and part of the commercial ads on Friday, would be suspended to mourn the victims of the accident.

Other programs

At 4:18 p.m. on Aug. 13, 2015, the official microblog of Tencent Video's animation channel said that due to the impact of the explosion in Tianjin's engine room, which was severely damaged, some animations scheduled to be updated on Aug. 13, 2015, could not be followed up, and apologized profusely.

Oriental TV's "Extreme Challenge", which was scheduled to air on Sunday (August 16, 2015), has been delayed for a week. Jiangsu TV's "Genuine Heroes" originally scheduled to air last night (August 14, 2015) has also been postponed to next week, replaying the previous episode instead. The network variety show "Qiba", which was scheduled to be updated every Friday and Saturday, has also suspended its latest installment, and Sichuan TV's "Spring of Comedy Class" every Friday night has also been postponed for a week, while other TV variety shows are also expected to announce their suspensions one after another.

Foreign media

August 13, 2015 world mainstream media headlines focused on the Tianjin explosion, including British news agency Reuters and Singapore's Straits Times.

CNN headlines

Explosions in China's Tianjin 17 dead

A series of explosions rocked the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on the night of August 12, 2015, killing 17 people and injuring more than 300, according to officials and media sources; the cause of the blasts is not yet clear.

BBC headline

China blasts: explosions kill and injure in port city of Tianjin

Massive explosions have rocked the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than a hundred. According to official media reports, the explosion occurred at a warehouse in the city that housed "hazardous chemicals". The Tianjin Meteorological Bureau has launched a Level 1 emergency response for weather protection following the accident. The World Meteorological Organization of the China Meteorological Administration and the International Atomic Energy Agency's Beijing Regional Environmental Emergency Response Center quickly activated the environmental emergency response mode for analysis.

Monitoring showed that the weather at the time of the explosion in Tianjin Binhai New Area (23:30 on August 12, 2015) was sunny, with a temperature of 28.2 degrees Celsius and a relative humidity of 59%; the wind direction was southwest-west, with a wind speed of 2.9 m/s; the wind direction and wind force were basically stable throughout the night, and there were no thunder and lightning, precipitation or other weather phenomena.

Environmental protection departments have implemented blocking of all three sea drainage outlets in the area of the accident, as well as uninterrupted monitoring of rainwater outlets, sewage outlets, sewage treatment plants, and sea river locks outside the site's isolation zone.

On August 15, 2015, the Beihai Branch of the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) and the Tianjin Municipal Oceanic Administration (TMA) carried out emergency sampling and on-site surveillance monitoring in the sea area of the main harbor pool of Tianjin Port near the accident site as well as in the sea area to the east of Dongjiang of Tianjin Port, and also inspected the sewage outfalls and breakwaters in the line along the northern coast of the Dongjiang port area of Tianjin Port. *** 5 monitoring sections were deployed, 13 stations were set up and 194 samples were tested.

According to the monitoring results, in the seawater in the harbor pool of Tianjin Port and the surrounding sea area, there were no abnormalities in the indicators of acidity and alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, chemical oxygen demand, oil, reactive phosphate, sulfide, organic carbon, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, etc. compared with the same period of the previous years; cyanide and volatile phenols were not detected. The content of inorganic nitrogen in the sea water near the east of Dongjiang port area has increased compared with August 14, 2015, given that inorganic nitrogen is a nutrient salt and not a toxic substance, it will not have an impact on the marine ecosystem and the production and life at sea for the time being. After the Tianjin Binhai New Area explosion accident, the State Internet Information Office to increase the crackdown on all kinds of rumors online, August 13, 2015, has asked the Beijing Internet Information Office in accordance with the law to close @ six handful of a week, @ Hong Kong Daily News, @ slamming big brother, and so on a number of rumor-mongering, rumor-spreading microblog accounts.

In addition, in the afternoon of August 13, 2015, Zhengzhou Evening News WeChat official account published inaccurate news involving the city of Tianjin, causing a bad influence. After being reported by netizens, the State Internet Information Office has instructed the Guangdong Provincial Internet Information Office to penalize the Zhengzhou Evening News WeChat official account by closing it for one week according to law.

By August 14, 2015, the State Internet Information Office seriously investigated and dealt with more than 360 microblogging and microblogging accounts spreading rumors about the "8-12" particularly major fire and explosion accident in Tianjin Port, and took measures to shut down the accounts concerned. Local net information offices and Internet enterprises have been instructed to take punitive measures in accordance with the law against "network V" who spread rumors and gloat by banning or interviewing them, and more than 90 microblogging accounts such as @Li Changqing Lawyer and more than 70 WeChat public numbers such as "Smooth Talker" have been permanently shut down, and more than 200 accounts have been punished by shutting down. closed, and temporary closure measures were also taken against more than 200 accounts.

After the accident on August 15, 2015, some websites or randomly compiled and distributed "at least 1,000 people died in the Tianjin explosion", "no survivors in a one-kilometer radius", "Tianjin has been chaotic disorder, shopping malls were looted", "Tianjin main leaders adjusted" and other rumors, or allow website users to upload related rumors from microblogging, microblogging, creating panic, and become a rumor staging ground, resulting in a bad social impact, condemned and reported by netizens. The State Net Information Office, in conjunction with relevant departments, depending on the severity of the case, 18 websites, such as Chev.com, MeiHang.com and MilitaryChina.com, were permanently shut down and canceled for the record as punitive measures, and 32 websites, such as Fresh Military.com, 0668 Forums, and Azeri National Geographic Forums, were temporarily shut down for one month as punitive measures. Several scheduled movie and celebrity launches in Beijing have been canceled, including Huayi Brothers' Ex 2 Spare Tire Counterattack, the scheduled August 14, 2015 TFBOYS media launch, and Liu Yifei, Song Seung-heon's 3rd Love, starring Song Seung-heon. The pair of new lovers have rushed to the launch site, face to face with the media to express condolences for the accident injuries after the end of the activity. The studio said it will hold another conference on September 30, 2015 before the movie's release.

August 13, 2015 afternoon, "Get Out! Mr. Tumor" Guangzhou conference, director Han Yan, star Daniel Wu, Bai Baihe prayed for Tianjin.

Huang Bo: can't bear to turn the screen anymore ...... praying for casualties to be minimized! Tianjin peace!

Lu Han: Pray for Tianjin ...... Please help make a life-saving passage for the nearby road!

Tranquility: the lightness of life, for the deceased to send off, for the living blessing, do not send pictures, do not let the grief to reappear, three minutes of silence.

Li Bingbing: salute to the brave firefighters! Pray for the safe return of the lost brothers!

Yao Chen: Knowing the danger, but righteous. Pray for the safe return of the lost firefighters.

Many stars (Shu Qi, Yao Chen, Li Chen, Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, angelababy, Li Bingbing, Gao Yuanyuan, Huang Bo, Tong Liya, Liu Tao, Chen He, Jia Zhangke, He Gui, Bai Baihe, Chen Yufan, Yuan Hong, Ma Tianyu, Zhou Dongyu, Asa, Chen Jianzhou, Hu Ge, Lu Han, Shen Mengchen, Zhang Bichen, Chen Yanxi, Cai Kangyong, Ying Caier, Chen Xiaochun, Zhang Xinyu, (Hua Shao, Ren Chong, Wu Kegun, He Chaolian, Cui Yongyuan, Li Yifeng, Yu Zheng, Luo Zhixiang, Zhou Yangqing) and other celebrities have posted prayers, wishing everyone peace and safety. Donations Donation organizations / people Donation amount Han Geng 1 million yuan Guo Degang 1 million yuan Du Chun 1 million yuan Huang Xiaoming, Angelababy couple 2 million yuan Li Chen 500,000 yuan Jackie Chan 3 million yuan Fan Bingbing 1 million yuan Anle Films 5 million yuan Xiangtai Chen Lan 1 million yuan Hanhong Love Charitable Foundation 500,000 yuan Zhang Xinyu 1 million yuan China Pharmaceutical Materials Association 500,000 yuan Tianjin Buddha Ci Foundation 300,000 yuan Chen Ou 5 million yuan Tang Yan 500,000 yuan The cast of "Clara Lovers" 1 million yuan Liu Kaiwei, Yang Mi couple 1 million Jiaxing Media 500,000 Hebei Red Cross 100,000 North China Pharmaceutical Company Limited 1.5 million yuan antibiotics Shiyao Group Limited Liability Company 1 million yuan burn spray medicine Beijing Red Cross 200,000 Sanofi-Aventis 1 million Qiao Renliang 1 million Xianxiang Pharmaceuticals 1 million yuan of drugs General Electric 3 million yuan of medical equipment Want Want Group 5 million yuan Silver Lake Network 1 million BD China 1 million yuan of medical products TFBOYS 300,000 yuan Huayi Brothers 2 million yuan China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation in conjunction with the Bazaar Public Welfare Charitable Fund, the "Bazaar" magazine 1 million million yuan Mr. and Mrs. Liu Qiangdong and Zhang Zetian 10 million yuan Tianjin Municipality Ningbo Chamber of Commerce more than 1.22 million yuan British Tianjin Chamber of Commerce Organization 8,825 pounds New China Insurance 100,000 Bayer 350,000 AOC Air Wang Shusheng, chairman of the Board of Directors 500,000 Tianjin Inner Mongolia Chamber of Commerce 150,000 Shandong Sunbird Clothing Co. 12,272.5 million yuan WTO United Fund General Association 1 million Hong Kong dollars Dongfeng Yueda Kia 1 million yuan United Chinese Association of the United States 25,000 yuan Tianmu Photography Association 2,000 loaves of bread Bank of China Tianjin Branch 580,000 yuan netizens forced to donate

After the Tianjin Port explosion, many netizens began to @ The Nature Conservancy - Jack Ma microblogging comments under the "forced to donate". Some of the netizens were very vocal, pointing out why Jack Ma did not donate, and there were even people shouting "Dad" while accusing Jack Ma. Jack Ma's microblogging has fallen, microblogging comments were clear color "forced to donate" message covered. Many netizens accused Ma Yun "why not give Tianjin donations", "the richest man should donate 100 million", "you donate is the same as I donate," "you I don't donate, I don't Taobao anymore".

Donation data

After the "8-12" dangerous goods warehouse explosion in Tianjin Port, the local area received a lot of donations, according to the Tianjin Municipal Administration of Social Organizations public information, the city's social organizations in 20 days to accept or collect funds has more than 140 million yuan. February 14, 2016, Tianjin Port "8-12" major fire and explosion accident follow-up heavy chemical project relocation matters are being steadily carried out, a number of enterprises have been formulated relocation plan, moved to the southern Binhai New Area planning Nangang Industrial Zone, to achieve the centralized layout development.

Tianjin Port "8-12" major fire and explosion accident occurred to the development of Binhai New Area has left a profound lesson. According to the local safety supervision bureau statistics, after the accident, the region **** 583 hazardous chemical enterprises into the scope of the investigation. This is included in the "red table" need to develop banning, closure, conversion, relocation program of 85 enterprises, of which 9 have been rectified, 10 developed a relocation program, the other 66 have been signed to confirm the development of relevant programs.

Tianjin Bohua Chemical Development Co., Ltd. included in one of the relocation plan has been relocated and reformed and marine environmental assessment of multiple rounds of publicity. According to the content of the public announcement, Tianjin Bohua Chemical Development Co., Ltd. plans to move to the Binhai New Area under the Nangang Industrial Zone, through the reclamation of land for the construction of the project, the proposed use of sea area of about 305 hectares. The project will build polyethylene, polypropylene, hydrogen peroxide and other production facilities.

The new area will also further adjust the region's chemical industry layout, the preliminary consideration of the future only allows new chemical projects in the Nangang Industrial Zone, the Lingang Economic Zone, the chemical industry to fill in the scale is no longer expanding the Dagang Petrochemical Industrial Park and other functional areas, streets and towns are no longer new hazardous chemicals production, storage projects, the realization of the region's hazardous chemicals production, storage enterprises to the concentration of the Nangang Industrial Zone.

Nangang Industrial Zone is located in Tianjin Binhai New Area in the south, adjacent to the Bohai Bay, and Dagang oil fields not far away, is located in the construction of a world-class heavy chemical industry base and port integrated functional areas. At present, there are three national crude oil reserves, China-Russia oil refining and other large-scale petrochemical projects in the area.