In the past three years, totally 237 HC companies has been regulated by Shanghai government, consisting of 195 manufacturers, 23 storage firms and 19 users and accumulatively 1.4 million tons of HC had been absent of production or storage in the metropolitan, which including: the highly toxics, the inflammables, the explosives, etc. Thus numbers of environmental risks has been minimized as productions, storages and transports of the chemicals in central area of the city has been decreased.

Shanghai will continue its restructuring policies on hazardous chemical related industries by giving more guidance and financial subsidies to the high-tech and policy-oriented companies in their relocation to the new industrial zone, while strict control in numbers and scales be implemented upon the high risks and low-leveled enterprises.

As revealed from Shanghai officials, the city is presently modifying its local law “Regulations on Control over Safety of Hazardous Chemical in Shanghai” (City Order No 56), which will lead centralized control over operating, marketing and transporting of the hazardous chemicals. And a local inventory “List of First Banned, Restricted and controlled Hazardous chemicals in Shanghai” is to be promulgated in near term to put more strict measures on HC companies, and renewal by adding more chemicals is expected in late half 2012 or early 2013.