Lake clean-up brings change in fortune
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Gong Langbo, a 20-year-old water skier, is warming up for her daily training by a lake.
As a member of the Chinese Youth Waterski Show Team, she has been training here for months. In April, the team set up its training base at Lushan Xihai Lake in Wuning County, east China鈥檚 Jiangxi Province.
In her spare time, Gong also likes to dive underwater and observe the endangered freshwater jellyfish that live in the lake. 鈥淭he jellyfish look like peach blossoms in full bloom or little umbrellas; they are so beautiful.鈥
The lake is clear now, but in the past, nearly half of the lake was occupied by fish cages, said Huang Benfu, 51, a local fisherman.
Since 2008, the county invested nearly 600 million yuan (US$88 million) in cleaning the lake. More than 300 fish farms were closed and 25,000 fish cages removed, and fish that produced large amounts of waste such as weever and mandarin were replaced with silver and bighead carp that help filter the water.
The local government also arranged jobs for all 500 local fishermen at a fishing company. 鈥淢y wife and I are now working for the company鈥檚 logistics department. We earn about 8,000 yuan a month, more than what we earned when we were fishermen,鈥 Huang said.
Li Fei, the team鈥檚 coach, also feels the changes. 鈥淲e did some training at the lake 10 years ago, but it was so inconvenient because we had to avoid fish cages. Now, the fish cages are gone, and the water has become more clear. It鈥檚 a perfect place for our training, which is why we set up our training base here.鈥
With the water quality and environment improving, the local government has been developing the sports industry in recent years, and a tennis center and aviation camp have been built.
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