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Monday was a day of mishaps for Dalian in northeast China: while a fire raged at Dalian Petrochemical Company, a branch of the state-owned PetroChina Co., a subway construction site had collapsed across town near the port city’s airport.
Monday morning at around 5 a.m., a collapse occurred at a construction site and created a hole 26 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 16 meters deep, China News Radio reported. A Dalian resident indicated that this was the sixth incident of the kind to happen during construction of Dalian’s underground.
A nearby gas station worker told The Epoch Times that the collapse occurred at night and affected the morning commute. “Around 7 a.m. when I came to work, the traffic was congested and really slow.”
Mr. Yao, a Dalian resident, believed that the construction was clearly shabby because the project has been subcontracted through too many units and the profit is near zero for the current contractor. He thus questioned: How could the construction be expected to be conducted adequately?
Last month, a fire erupted at the PetroChina Dalian Petrochemical Company because of a leak in the heat exchanger during installation of a vacuum distillation unit that weighed ten million tons. Monday, the company experienced another explosion, this time in its number 875 storage tank.
The fire was under control three hours later. The cause of the incident is still under investigation. This is the fifth fire at the Dalian Petrochemical Company this year.
Read the original Chinese article.
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