Gulei () is a town in
Zhangpu County
Zhangpu County () is a county of Zhangzhou prefecture-level city in far southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China with 847,535 (2020 census). The county seat is located in the town of Sui'an ().
Zhangpu is bordered by the Longhai City ...
in the far south of
Fujian
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province,
China
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. It lies on a long peninsula, also called Gulei, which projects into the
Taiwan Strait
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Names
Former names of the Tai ...
, enclosing the
Zhang River
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estuary / Dongshan Bay to its east. The town is the furthest south of any in Zhangpu, one of its villages (called Gulei) being only from the main island of
Dongshan.
By 2017, Gulei town and the entire Gulei peninsula have been cleared of population for the construction of the Tenglong Chemical Complex.
Gulei in the News
On January 9, 2009,
China's Environmental Protection Ministry authorized the construction in Gulei of a two-plant chemical project: a
Tenglong (腾龙)(DAC - Dragon Aromatics Co.) company factory to produce
p-Xylene, and a
Xianglu (翔鹭) company factory to use ''p''-xylene to produce
polyethylene terephthalate
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.
Tenglong is partly owned and Xianglu wholly owned by
Chen Youhao. Both companies have factories in
Xiamen
Xiamen,), also known as Amoy ( ; from the Zhangzhou Hokkien pronunciation, zh, c=, s=, t=, p=, poj=Ē͘-mûi, historically romanized as Amoy, is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Stra ...
's
Haicang District. Residents' protests there in June 2007 forced the two-plant project to cease construction and move elsewhere. The delay and the move, together with a new 830 million to meet pollution control guidelines, have apparently added RMB 3 billion to the cost of the investment, which in 2007 was stated to be 10.8 billion.
In 2008 thousands of people in Gulei town and in neighbouring Dongshan county protested the coming construction. Zhangzhou municipal authorities insisted they had exaggerated the impact of the chemical project and did not understand the economic benefits it could bring.
In January 2012, precommissioning operation of the two plants began.
In April 2015, one of the plants suffered from an explosion and fires caused by an oil leak; after two days, the fires were extinguished.
China's chemical plant fire put out
2015-04-09
Notes and references
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*South China Morning Post, ''Environmental Chiefs Approve ..'', by Shi Jiangtao and Kristine Kwok, 2009 Jan 14.
Township-level divisions of Fujian
Peninsulas of China
Zhangpu County