But in December it agreed instead to build a special processing plant in Jilin province.
State media say residents close to the border in Jilin province felt tremors for over a minute.
Shell's other projects include a service station partnership with Sinopec in Jiangsu, and an oil shale development in Jilin Province.
In 2002, Jilin province removed stipulations that those qualified to have two children must wait four years before having the second.
The plant in northeast China's Jilin province was still burning as of noon local time, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local sources.
According to Dai Xiyao, who looks after Tumen affairs for the provincial government of China's Jilin province, cargoes pass smoothly through North Korea's ports.
ECONOMIST: It looks good, even with North Korea as a partner
For most visitors it means a trip to Beijing, then to Yanji in China's Jilin province, by car to Tumen City on the border and then by car to Rajin.
Several dozen people also were hurt in the blaze in Jilin province's Mishazi township, which appeared to have been sparked by three early morning explosions, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The fire at the facility in Jilin province came as American regulators and consumers begin to scrutinize a bid by Chinese food company Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. to buy U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.
Global Times says an outraged public in Jilin province are demanding the death penalty for a man who has apparently confessed to killing and burying in snow a baby found in the back seat of a stolen car.
Since then the north-east has seen strikes most shockingly, in July 2009, a protest involving thousands of workers at a steel plant in Tonghua, in Jilin province, who beat to death a manager because of moves to privatise the factory.
Late last year the National Bureau of Statistics asked rural hukou holders in the north-eastern province of Jilin whether they wanted to switch to urban status.
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