Number of lakes decreases by 60 pct in C. China
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E-mail Xinhua, February 25, 2012
The number of lakes in central China's Hubei province has slumped by nearly 60 percent over the past half-century due to human activity, the provincial governor said Friday.
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| Hubei is known as China's "province of a thousand lakes." |
Lakes covering an area 100 mu (6.7 hectares) each numbered 1,332 in the 1950s, but the number has fallen by nearly 60 percent as of the end of last year, Governor Wang Guosheng said.
Many lakes in Hubei, known as China's "province of a thousand lakes," have shrunk or even disappeared over the past 50 years as a result of large-scale land reclamation and real estate development, Wang said.
Wang urged lower-level governments to launch resource and environmental surveys of existing lakes to help provincial authorities roll out better protection measures.
Governments at multiple levels are responsible for curbing pollution and environmental degradation in the country's lakes, Wang said.
The provincial legislature is working on a draft of a new lake protection regulation, the governor added.
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