Brief introduction of Tieben incident

In April, 2004, the State Council sent a special inspection team to check and investigate the illegal construction of steel project of Jiangsu Tieben Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., which was considered as a typical major event in which local government and relevant local departments were derelict and enterprises were suspected of violating laws and regulations.

The verification found that Tieben Company seriously violated the relevant provisions of the National Environmental Protection Law and Environmental Impact Assessment Law, and started construction without obtaining the environmental impact report approved by the environmental protection department; Violating the land management law, starting construction without obtaining the legal land requisition approval documents, and illegally occupying 654 1 mu of land, including 4,585 mu of cultivated land; Cheat bank credit and loans by providing false financial statements, and misappropriate a large number of working capital loans from banks.