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Related: About this forumScientists warn against China's plan to flatten over 700 mountains
Excavators line up on denuded hilltops on a mountain for a ground-breaking ceremony for the Lanzhou New Area project in Lanzhou city, of China's Gansu province. Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis
Scientists have criticised China's bulldozing of hundreds of mountains to provide more building land for cities.
In a paper published in journal Nature this week, three Chinese academics say plan to remove over 700 mountains and shovel debris into valleys to create 250 sq km of flat land has not been sufficiently considered environmentally, technically or economically.
Li Peiyue, Qian Hui and Wu Jianhua, all from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Changan University, China, write: There has been too little modelling of the costs and benefits of land creation. Inexperience and technical problems delay projects and add costs, and the environment impacts are not being thoroughly considered.
One of the largest projects began in April 2012 in Yan'an in the Shaanxi province, where the aim was to double the city's area by creating an additional 78.5 sq km of land.
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http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/04/scientists-warn-against-chinas-plan-to-flatten-over-700-mountains
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Scientists warn against China's plan to flatten over 700 mountains (Original Post)
n2doc
Jun 2014
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)1. Haven't we done something similar in
West Virginia?
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. birth control...birth control...birth control...DUH
FBaggins
(26,757 posts)3. Sounds like a potential translation error
Creating less than 100 square miles of flat land... can't possibly flatten 700 of anything that we would call a "mountain".