A Prosperous Market Embraced Expansion——Thirteen Surveys of Export-Oriented Economic Development of Petroleum and Chemical Industry in Zhejiang Province

Wenzhou is one of the major modern light industry manufacturing bases in China. The civilian commodity industry is very developed and consumes a large amount of chemical raw materials and products each year. Wenzhou's local chemical industry is not developed, and companies can only purchase chemical products from foreign countries. This has led to the prosperity of chemical trade.
In 1998, Wenzhou Chemical Market was established in Lucheng District with the approval of the municipal government and became the first specialized chemical market in Wenzhou City, with a total area of ​​approximately 80,000 square meters. At present, there are a total of 156 business households operating in the chemical market. Many of them are foreign merchants. After 7 years of development, Wenzhou Chemical Market has now become one of the most influential professional markets in southern Zhejiang. In 2004, the total market turnover exceeded 1 billion yuan. Zheng Xiangsong, general manager of the market, said that facts have proven that we did the right thing at the right time.
In this regard, the business households settled in the chemical market in Wenzhou have a deep understanding. Ye Lili, general manager of Wenzhou Qiancheng Chemical Co., Ltd., said that I have engaged in chemical trade for many years. In 1998, the sales amounted to 10 million yuan and the second year was more than 30 million yuan. In recent years, the number of tourists has increased significantly. This result did not even me. think. The market stores do not mention how pretty they are, waiting for the business operators who have entered the market to hear that they have long queues. The prosperous market has not only provided business owners with benefits, but also promoted the economic activity of one party. It also explored a feasible management model for hazardous chemicals safety management in Wenzhou City.
As there are chemical warehouses and hazardous chemicals transport companies in Wenzhou Chemical Market, professional safety management agencies and fire fighting teams are also set up to implement uniform and standardized management of hazardous chemicals and provide counterpart services for business households. This saves operating households. A lot of heart. At the same time, when the originally scattered business households were brought together, the communication of information was more convenient and the management efficiency of relevant government departments was also improved. So some people use the "three little heart" to describe the chemical market in Wenzhou: the people are less concerned, the safety supervision department is less concerned, and the business households are less concerned. It can be seen that all parties benefit.
Zheng Xiangsong, general manager of Wenzhou Chemical Market, said that compared to the large chemical trade team in Wenzhou, the scale of the chemical market in Wenzhou is still too small, and it contains only a very small part of it. In Lucheng, Bohai, and Longwan alone, there are no fewer than 1,000 companies engaged in the management of hazardous chemicals, and around 350 companies (including 156 companies that have entered the chemical market in Wenzhou) have received “dangerous chemicals business licenses”, accounting for only three points. Among them, there are more than 300 other unqualified companies operating illegally, and more than 200 that have no business licenses for warehousing. In other words, there are a considerable number of hazardous chemicals business operators that are outside the monitoring and management of government departments. Every year, the Wenzhou municipal government carries out safety rectification activities for dangerous chemicals, and can always find out a large number of illegal storage sites and business sites. The potential safety hazards are ubiquitous and frightening. There are many reasons for repeatedly investigating repeated prohibitions. One of the indisputable facts is that there are only two specialized chemical markets in Wenzhou, which cannot accommodate all the operating stores and warehousing that are actually needed.
Wenzhou City, which has passed warehouse evaluation, has less than 40,000 square meters of warehouses, including 25,000 square meters of Wenzhou Chemical Market, and a small amount of warehousing in Wenzhou Port Terminal and other storage tanks. Obviously, such storage capacity simply can not meet the demand. If people want to ask, how do you store dangerous chemicals with sales of several billion yuan each year in Wenzhou market? There is only one answer: illegal storage.
At present, the Wenzhou Chemical Market is actively preparing for the establishment of a larger-scale chemical market in southern Zhejiang, which has been approved by the Wenzhou municipal government. By then, the Wenzhou chemical market will be relocated to the Lucheng rattan bridge. Their goal is to nurture the new market into a regional chemical market in Wenzhou, both in terms of hardware and software, and will be even higher than it is now.