The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Sunday criticized the government of east China's Jiangsu Province for failing to supervise land reclamation¹ and control pollution along its coast.

 

中国国家海洋局周日批评江苏省政府未能监管沿海地区的填海造地以及控制污染问题。

 

An SOA inspection² team exposed a number of flaws concerning land reclamation in Jiangsu after an investigation³ in the province from August to September, said a SOA press release.

 

The province made slow progress in restoring environment along its coast, the statement said, adding that it only finished restoring the environment along half of the 300-km targeted coastline required by the State Council.

 

The provincial⁴ government was also found to have violated state regulations by delegating the power of granting administrative⁵ approval for small land reclamation projects to the city government of Nantong, the statement said. A total of 14 projects, involving 81.29 hectares of reclaimed⁶ land, have been wrongly approved since 2012.

 

A large amount of reclaimed land remain deserted⁷, the statement said. From 2012 to 2017, about 2,328 hectares of sea waters were transformed into land but only 21.28 percent of them were actually developed.

 

Developers of 184 land reclamation projects did not obtain government approval before they started building their projects.

 

The province was also found failing to effectively protect nature reserves. Fish farming has still been operated in about 9,955 hectares of sea waters around a national wetland reserve in Jiangsu, where such commercial operations should have been banned, according to SOA.

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