Shandong Reclamation Shortens The Coastline By 186 Km &Nbsp And Profits Several Times.

Behind the reclamation islands is the great leap forward of the marine economy and the interest driving of tens of times of reclamation.

It has 3345 kilometres of Gold Coast, accounting for 1/6 of the national coastline, and more than 200 bays along the coast, more than 50 of which can build more than 10000 ton berths.

With the continuous questioning in China, in 2009, the NDRC and the State Oceanic Administration jointly issued the circular on strengthening the management of reclamation planning, requiring that reclamation be formally incorporated into the national economic and social development plan from 2010, and the annual total control should be implemented.

Prior to the high profile propaganda in Shandong, which is frequently called "the first and largest domestic", the reclamation project is still in full swing. However, both the government departments and the enterprises involved are all secretive.

In fact, Shandong is just a microcosm, not even a large reclamation population. A state-level sea area expert evaluation expert told the times weekly reporter that Hainan, Guangdong, Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin and other coastal cities had no less reclamation than Shandong.

Investing 100 billion to build marine new towns

Longkou Bay, Longkou City, Yantai, China's largest offshore artificial island group will be born here. It plans to reclaim 35.23 square kilometers, and the total area for planning will reach 44.29 square kilometers.

The Longkou artificial island group was approved by the State Oceanic Administration in May last year. According to the plan, the Longkou artificial island group will build 6 offshore artificial islands and 1 jetty types.

The construction of the artificial island group was built by Nanshan Group, a local enterprise.

Qu Shuqiang, Minister of Propaganda Department of Nanshan Group, said: "Nanshan belongs to the construction side. We are just filling in the sea. This is a municipal government project. We should make an appointment with the Propaganda Department of the municipal Party committee in advance, and dare not blindly accept the interview."

How to plan the future is not clear. It belongs to government behavior. There are many procedures. "

Li Dazhong, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Longkou municipal Party committee, told the times weekly reporter that "in addition to the construction site, we are unable to enter the reclamation site.

For the reclamation, leaders at higher levels require no publicity during the construction period, and will be publicized after completion.

This is a major project of the country, not the propaganda department at the county level.

The earth volume of twenty or thirty square kilometers can be compared with that of the Three Gorges dam.

The reclamation is like the Three Gorges dam.

Experts say they don't understand what we can say.

A local official said, "Longkou has always been the top 100 counties in the country. The economic development needs a lot of large projects, dozens of projects to be approved, but there is no construction land, even if the replacement is not enough, the land index is only five hundred or six hundred mu a year, which needs to go to the sea.

At the same time, if the project goes to the state, it will also be subsidized.

The cost of reclamation in this area is estimated at about 200 thousand yuan per mu. "

If this project is completed, it will be

Longkou City mayor Li Yongle said in this year's government work report that in 2010, the gross domestic product of the city is expected to reach 68 billion yuan, two times that of 2005. By 2015, the gross domestic product of the whole city will reach 125 billion yuan, and the local fiscal revenue will reach 7 billion 700 million yuan, double that of 2010.

During the year, it invested 3 billion 500 million yuan to complete the bidding for the artificial island cofferdam project and the reclamation project, and at the same time, strive for the higher authorities to regard the artificial island group as the blue economic demonstration zone and the key development and construction area of the whole province.

According to local media reports, the reclamation project in Longkou Bay was completed last year. It is expected that all reclamation works will be completed in 2014. According to the plan, a modern marine industrial base will be built to invest 100 billion yuan and achieve 300 billion yuan in output by 2020. At the same time, a new marine city with 100 thousand people and 300 thousand people will be born.

This means that the output value of the artificial island group will be 4.4 times the annual output value of Longkou, equivalent to 4 new Longkou City.

Reclamation of Wendeng Nanhai new district is seriously exceeding standard

Similarly, the Nanhai new area, located in Wendeng, Weihai, has a coastline of 156 km.

As soon as we enter the new area, we can see that the heavy haul trucks are loading and unloading the stones.

Sui Hongqiang, deputy director of the office of Wendeng Nanhai Management Committee, told the times weekly reporter that the Nanhai new area was the earliest town of Xiao Guan. It started construction in 2007, planned 160 square kilometers of Nanhai new area, built 90 square kilometers of land, and built five major industrial bases. "In just four years, the tax revenue has increased 47 times than before."

Wendeng land and Resources Bureau used geoscience staff to say that the index of farmland conversion to construction land in Wendeng is 550 mu, which was more than 470 mu last year, and more than 400 mu in the first few years.

"Before the Nanhai new area, there are 70 thousand -8 acres of salt land, which belongs to the construction land in the land classification, and does not need to occupy the index of construction land."

Earlier, Wang Liang, Secretary of the Wendeng Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (micro-blog), said in an interview with the media, "after the new district planning, the development space of 160 square kilometers was created from saline alkali grassland and waterlogged land, and 90 square kilometres of construction land was developed.

According to the plan, the Nanhai new area will reach 76 billion yuan in 2015, and strive to cultivate more than 10 billion enterprises, 3 enterprises and 1 billion yuan enterprises, with a planned population of 100 thousand and a total of 300 thousand people in the future. It will become a sub center city in Wendeng.

According to Chen Pisong, an investigator of the Weihai marine and Fisheries Bureau, "only the Wendeng Nanhai new area has reported to the State Oceanic Administration in that the reclamation area is less than 30 square kilometers, which is a 2015-2020 year plan based on the project situation. At present, it is enough."

However, Wu Jianzheng, a professor of evaluation and evaluation at Ocean University of China, told the times weekly reporter that "the first 160 kilometers of Wendeng Nanhai New District has not been passed. The Shandong Provincial Department of Oceanic and Fishery Department has already pressed 30 square kilometres to the last year, and it has been reduced to more than ten square kilometers last year. It is also possible to retract through examination and approval. On the one hand, it is the question of environmental impact, on the one hand, whether the planning period can be completed.

At present, the embankment and port of Xingang built by Zhangjia port are less than 2 square kilometers, and more than 50 hectares should be reported to the state. More than 40 hectares can be approved in the provinces. What they are doing now is the procedure of the province. They regard the embankment, wharf and fairway as a project item. In fact, they are still a port function.

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Benefit driven reclamation

Shandong Provincial People's government website shows that in recent years, the construction and utilization of Shandong sea has been running at a high level.

According to statistics, since the implementation of the "sea area act" in 2002, as of 2009, there were more than 8000 open sea reclamation projects and reclamation projects in the province, with 4 million acres of sea area.

Among them, the total area of reclamation in accordance with the law approved by the State Council and the provincial government reached more than 60 thousand mu (40 square kilometers), which ensured the landing of more than 200 construction projects in the coastal areas.

According to the website data of Shandong marine and Fisheries Department, in 2009, the reclamation area in Shandong was 19.96 square kilometers, and the construction area in 2010 was 17 square kilometers.

In early January 2011, the State Council approved the "Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone Development Plan", becoming the first national development strategy approved in 12th Five-Year.

And the construction of Shandong Peninsula blue economic zone is an important part of the implementation of intensive intensive use of the sea.

The implementation of the draft intensive and intensive use of the sea to create a blue economic zone in Shandong Peninsula proposes that the Shandong Peninsula blue economic zone includes 9 core areas, namely, 9 intensive and intensive use of the sea, including the "Ding Hai Bay New Town", "Weifang marine new town", "Haizhou Bay heavy chemical industry gathering area", "Qian Dao machinery manufacturing industry gathering area", "Longkou Bay Marine equipment manufacturing industry gathering area", "Binzhou marine chemical industry gathering area", "Dong Jia Kou marine high-tech industry gathering area", "Laizhou new marine energy industry gathering area" and "Dongying oil industry gathering area".

Each concentrated and intensive sea area is a marine or marine specific characteristic industrial agglomeration area.

In 2010, Shandong's marine GDP exceeded 700 billion yuan, ranking second in the country.

According to preliminary estimates, by the year 2020, the total investment of the 9 core areas of the "Shandong Peninsula Blue Economic Zone" was about 1 trillion and 400 billion yuan, with a total area of 1600 square kilometers concentrated and intensive utilization, including 600 square kilometers of coastal land, 420 square kilometers of land reclamation, 180 square kilometers of high coated sea, and 400 square kilometers of open sea.

In addition to Shandong, in March, the Zhejiang marine economic development demonstration zone plan was approved by the State Council. According to the plan, by 2015, the GDP of the demonstration area will exceed 2 trillion and 600 billion yuan, accounting for 3/4 of the province, and the total value of marine production in the demonstration area is close to 700 billion yuan.

Hainan's "12th Five-Year" marine economic development plan determined that by 2015, the added value of Hainan's marine industry reached 127 billion 400 million yuan, quadrupling that of 2010.

Fujian's marine economic development plan strives to reach 700 billion yuan in 2015, accounting for 28% of GDP in the province.

Behind the great leap forward of the marine economy, reclamation is inevitable.

Previously, only 310 square kilometres of sea area were planned for Caofeidian Industrial Area in Hebei, where the reclamation area was as high as 240 square kilometers.

The cost of reclamation varies from seventy thousand or eighty thousand yuan per mu to 2.3 million yuan per mu, and the land pfer price is usually more than 1 million yuan per mu.

Public information shows that in the past 1996-2007 years, the reclamation area of Bohai was 551 square kilometers, and the area of coastal wetlands was reduced by 718 square kilometers, with an annual reduction of more than 1%.

Meanwhile, the coastline of the Bohai rim was shortened from 5399 km in 1970 to 5139 km in 2000, and the total length was shortened by 260 km.

As far as Shandong is concerned, in the past 20 years, the reclamation area has been reduced by 22 thousand hectares and the coastline length has been reduced by 186 km by reclamation and reclamation.

Reclamation aggravated the rate of deposition.

The impact of large-scale reclamation on the environment is irreversible.

According to the monitoring data released by the Shandong Provincial Department of Oceanic and fishery, as of the end of 2007, the area of Jiaozhou Bay has shrunk by 1/3 compared with the natural bay in history.

Zuo Hua, vice president of the Qingdao Academy of environmental protection, said that reclamation not only caused the reduction of sea area, but also changed the hydrodynamic conditions of the Jiaozhou Bay, which caused the hydrodynamic conditions of the Jiaozhou bay to be artificially changed, and reduced the reclamation area. The area of the Jiaozhou Bay continued to decrease, resulting in a decrease in tidal current and tidal volume, that is, the smaller the hydrodynamic force and the resulting siltation. The deposition would bring about a reduction in the tidal volume and a vicious cycle.

If the water power of the sea is weakened and silt is serious, pollutants can not be purified after entering the sea area, which will affect the pportation of pollutants. If the pollutants are not pported, they will aggravate the pollution.

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Wu Jianzheng told the times weekly reporter that the increasing sea ice along Bohai coast has been related to reclamation in recent years.

"In recent years, the sea ice in Bohai is serious. It is not that the temperature has been low or even low.

Before freezing, big waves can break it up and hit the shore.

The large tonnage wharf needs to be extended to the deep water. To avoid siltation, two pools must be built. The long banks will be extended to dig out the harbor basin. The long dike can block the flow and keep the waves. But the presence of the site will make the wave force smaller, and it will not break the ice, and it will not reach the shore.

The Gulf of Laizhou last year reached 26 kilometers, the highest in history being 25 kilometers.

The natural law of the Bohai Bay is to be silted up, but it is thought that reclamation has increased the rate of silting.

On the one hand, reclamation is mainly used for urban construction and real estate development. There will be no profit for simple tourism projects, no one will do it. On the other hand, the port industry will use more sea, build deep water ports, and large enterprises will have high land taxes, and the government will also like to introduce them.

Now all provinces are filling up, Shandong is not filling much, Hainan, Guangdong, Hebei, Liaoning and so on are many, not less than Shandong.

Reclamation also caused harm to aquaculture, and aquatic products declined.

Reclamation has been in the past, some months, some even this year, and environmental impact cases are everywhere, but this is all done by the government. Environmental protection, port and shipping, ocean and other departments have been examined and approved. No one is going to investigate the responsibility of the government.

Some large-scale reclamation projects are newly approved and have not yet been completed. The hazard effect may be very significant after 10 years.

Even if the offshore artificial islands are relatively less affected by land reclamation, they will still change the natural ocean currents and affect the living environment of marine organisms.

Some experts believe that if encountered sea level rise, sea ice, storm surges and other bad weather, artificial island is relatively more vulnerable and more vulnerable.

Wu Jianzheng said, instead of filling up the sea, we need to have a long-term vision and argumentation.

At present, there is a "retreat to the sea" in the island of Muping, Yantai, Shandong. In 80s of last century, because of the need of economic construction and production development, the "ten mile long dyke" built up a breeding farm on the inside of the embankment because of the need for economic construction and production and development, resulting in poor water exchange. In order to restore the ecosystem, this year, the Island reclamation project opened a nearly kilometre long "hole", which runs through the East and West waters of the Qianhai Island, restoring marine tidal passages and restoring the natural attributes of the sea area.

Wu Jianzheng said that the fast blocked river will be dredged to increase the mobility of the water body. Meanwhile, some of the high heap can also be used for construction land.