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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4270)1/27/2005 7:57:11 PM
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Yellow River Delta shrinks by 7.2 sq km a year:
[World News]: Beijing, Jan 24 : The delta of the Yellow River, China's second longest waterway, is shrinking southward by an average 7.2 square kilometres a year due to sea water erosion, a geological survey has found.

The delta in the northern part of the eastern Shandong Province, where the Yellow River empties into the Bohai Sea, used to claim 22 square km of land annually from the sea before 1996, a surveyor with the Shandong Provincial Geology and Mineral Bureau, Xu Junxiang said.

Sand that drifted to the delta with sea water has fallen below the soil cutback during the past nine straight years.

This has happened particularly along the coastline in the northern border of the delta in Dongying, Xu and his colleagues found after site surveys and analysis of satellite pictures captured during the last three decades, Xinhua news agency reported.

Xu acknowledged that the Yellow River Delta is losing some of its newly accrued soil to the sea again as a result of decrease in the river water flow and weathering of sea water.

Historical data shows that the delta has claimed altogether 230 square km of land since 1855 and presently covers 650 sq km. PTI

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