date:Apr 01, 2014
Anyone taking a cab to the airport in Dalian, Qingdao or Yantai will encounter waves of beach-side apartments as real estate and tourism have combined to annex much of the countrys coastline. The situation is far more intense in tropical Hainan, the countrys leading tilapia producing region (and Chinas Hawaii, as the local slogan goes) and the Bohai region encompassing Shandong, a key fisheries region. More than 80 percent of the Bohai Bay coastline has been crowded by factories and buildings, a