A residential community surrounded by trees and flowers.

Land reclamation

The zone was the forerunner in its land reclamation work, as a way to find more room for development, while ensuring that the environment and ecology preserved or even improved.

It has added up to five square kilometers along the shallow shoreline and will add a total of 50 square kilometers after a 7-billion-yuan project is completed in three years.

In fact, the zone employs a reclamation method that differs from the commonly used method in other parts of China, where it goes from the coast to sea, reducing coastline and damaging the ecology. Here, the method is to get land from sea by creating islands, an approach that preserves the ecology.

Five artificial islands will emerge along the 200 square kilometers of sea off Huayuankou when the project is completed, according to Dong, the head of the administrative committee.

With a number of projects under construction or planned, the zone is always changing to the better. Photos provided to China Daily