New Coastline

New Coastline Xiaoping Island, Dalian, China

Photo and Text by Jerry Leo

A t the beginning of the economic crisis last year, Xiaoping Island project stop in short-term, but after local government and banks injected large amount of money to the project, and then the reclamation project to re-accelerate.

B ecause of the short stop before, Many Concrete stones and other Cement boxes

were piled up temporarily at the seaside, but five months later, these will be input into the sea.

The workers were busy pouring new cement box. Behind them, more than 20 fishing boats quietly moored at the artificial harbor where build two years ago. However, these vessels will have to leave here in future, because this is in planned high-level private yacht club.

A t present, Xiaoping Island is a large-scale construction area, as a microcosm of China today.

More than 7,000 workers from all over the country were assigned to pipeline on the 1.07 million square meters area. This kind of construction in Xiaoping Island will continue in next 10 years.

A fter 10 years, the coastline will be completely changed artificially.