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Ambitious blueprint for Chongming Island released
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CHONGMING Island will be developed into a “world-class ecological island” by 2020, the Shanghai government announced yesterday.
To achieve the target, forest coverage of the island will rise to 30 percent, while natural wetlands will account for 43 percent of the island’s territory.
A Metro line to connect the island with other city districts will be built, while studies will be done on building an expressway in the west of the island to connect Chongming with the city, according to the city government’s master plan for the island released yesterday.
Chongming, which lies near the mouth of the Yangtze, is China’s third largest island after Taiwan and Hainan, and accounts for 20 percent of the city’s total territory. The city government yesterday described the island as the “ecological barrier” to the city as well as the Yangtze River Delta Region.
By 2020, 95 percent of ground water on the island will reach the good quality standard, while 95 percent of the sewage in the island’s towns will be collected and well-treated. All agricultural sewage will be processed before being discharged into rivers.
The population on the island will be kept to about 700,000 by 2020, and the average income will be doubled from that of 2010, the plan stated. Action will be taken to attract professionals from both home and abroad to live and work on the island.
Changxing Island, which is under Chongming’s jurisdiction, will become a key manufacturing base for high-end environmentally friendly industries.
This island is also expected to facilitate Shanghai’s ambition to become an innovation center in science and technology with global influence.
The city’s major water source, Qingcaosha Reservoir is on Changxing.
Hengsha, the other island under Chongming’s jurisdiction, will mainly develop ecological and “green” agriculture, according to the plan.
The city government has set up a 252-square-kilometer ecological protection zone on the island where all development projects will be prohibited.
The zone houses Dongtan nature reserve, the nature reserve for Chinese sturgeons, as well as Qingcaosha and Dongfeng Xisha reservoirs.
Dongtan reserve is one of the city’s major stopovers for migratory birds flying south for the winter.
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