Staff Reporter
2014-09-18
08:58 (GMT+8)
The coastal areas of the Bohai Sea in northeastern China, long a habitat for birds flying one of the world's eight major migration routes, is being been replaced by massive sea reclamation projects and aquaculture farms, reports Chinese online news service the Paper.
Bohai Sea is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. Its proximity to Beijing makes it one of the busiest seaways in the world.
A Chinese research team made up of experts including Su Jilan, an academician at a research institute run by China's State Oceanic Administration, has found that during the 2006-2010 Five-Year Plan Beijing launched to boost economic development, land reclamation projects in coastal provinces and cities around China created some 5,000 square kilometers of new land.
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