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Songhua (2016 CyberFair Project ID 8099)
China, ChengDU
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness

We estimate 3 student(s) from 13 to 14 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Our school sits in the Songhua community of Shouan Town, Pujiang County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It taking the coach at Xinnanmen station of Chengdu City, along the Chendu-Yaan high way, after a 40 minutes drive, taking turn off the high way at Dhouanmen, and going west 5 kilometer. School is adjacent to Lingxi River, between Big Wumian Mountain and Smil Wumian Mountain; there is 20 kilometer saway from Mujiang County. It is about 1 kilometer from school to a new Express route, Chengdu-Xinjing-Pujiang,. The intercity railway from Chengdu to Pujian which is being builded is expected to be operational in 2016

Project Description: Pujiang is a southwest gate of Chengdu City complimented as “East of Eden”, it is a transportation hub and an important material distribution center with the only artery to Tibet from Sichuan. Known as the “Chengdu Garden, Green Pujiang”, Pujian is National Ecological Demonstration Area. The view of wetlands and water-logged area in Chengdu Basin disappeared, but wetlands in Pujiang are still with us. Pujiang River, Linxi River goes through the territory of Pujiang County, Pujiang people live in the water village that include Changtan Lake, Caoyang Lake, Shixiang Lake, the vast stretches of rice paddy, many dotted ponds and small reservoirs. Under the dual pressures of population explosion and economic development, a large number of wetlands were transformed into farmland in late twentieth Century, coupled with excessive exploitation of resources and pollution, the area of wetland was greatly reduced, and the wetland species were seriously damaged.

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