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killian
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 Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:18 am Post subject: changxing island, liaoning info anyone? |
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| hi. anyone in/done changxing island in liaoning? any info would be great. |
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un
Joined: 09 Mar 2008
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Location: on-line china
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http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=1063&journalID=88
n June 2005, the Liaoning Provincial government decided to construct a port on Changxing Island and turn the 255-square-kilometer island into an industrial park. Nearly two thousand local families have been relocated to make way for this prospective enterprise.
Lao Zhao, a driver with the Liaoning Marine and Fishery Academy for the past 20 years, has visited Changxing Island many times.
photo of a spotted seal in an icy placePhoto by NOAA
�Who would come here to use this port?� asks Zhao. �There are several adjacent seaports that don�t even fill to capacity, and this one would mean even more distance in shipping and transportation.�
To people like Zhao, who are paid less than $200 dollars a month, the multi-billion-dollar project is an extravagant waste. |
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Along the road leading to the construction site, ruins of community houses abut vast and fertile agricultural lands. Fruit trees and corn fields lay abandoned; not only have the residents of Changxing Island lost their land, but also means of making a proper living.
Several months ago, Changxing Island, China�s fifth largest island, was part of the National Spotted Seal Nature Reserve. Yet, to make way for a full-fledged industrial development plan, the government ordered an adjustment of the nature reserve�s boundary.
Wang Peilie, a researcher at Liaoning Marine and Fishery Academy, participated in the re-zoning process.
�We have to let economic development go first,� said Wang, who facilitated the establishment of the nature reserve in early 1990s. �There is no choice.� |
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