This large piece of land is located in a relatively remote location.
If it lasts for more than ten years, this land will have little value.
But with the development in recent years, high-quality seascape resources have become increasingly scarce.
Cheung Chau is backed by a lagoon and faces the sea. There is a ten-kilometer-long beach. The quality of the beach was not very good in the past, but in recent years, with the continuous strengthening of environmental protection efforts, the sand of Cheung Chau Beach has become much whiter.
Then the lagoon has been managed. There are patches of coral off Cheung Chau...
In places where the sea water is shallower, the sea water reflects the color of corals, and the sea surface also has some color.
The color of the sea surface is the visibility of the water.
In recent years...
It should be that a few years before Chen Yuan came to Xiaoshan Island, Wanxian was planning the development plan of Changzhou, and had opened up many joints for this purpose.
Chen Yuan contracted Xiaoshan Island and opened a hotel on the island. This was also a pawn for the development of Cheung Chau.
But in just a few years, the sea area near Xiaoshan Island has been developed into a large coral reef. What Secretary Wan and the others did not expect was that the sea area near Xiaoshan Island...that is, the sea off Cheung Chau was designated as a coral reef protection zone.
If it were not for the coral reef protected area, the development of Cheung Chau might have been put on the agenda now.
In recent years, the global economy has been booming, and a large amount of hot money has poured into Hainan. There are also hotel groups and real estate groups that have taken a fancy to the land in Cheung Chau.
If we don’t get the review documents needed for development quickly and start the project earlier...then there may be another war somewhere in a few years, and the global economy will enter a cold winter again...
Many joints in the Cheung Chau opening plan have been opened, and now a marine assessment report is needed.
"Actually... the development of Cheung Chau has little impact on the corals of Xiaoshan Island." Chen Yuandao: "But there are still some things. There are more people, and the number of people going out to sea for diving is expected to increase. There are some sunscreens, skin care products, The damage to coral reefs is particularly serious. Nowadays, many tourist islands abroad have banned certain sunscreens and skin care products.”
Chen Yuanhe from the Institute of Oceanography talked about this.
There is also a push to ban some sunscreens and skin care products that can damage coral reefs from entering Hainan.
The corals on Xiaoshan Island reproduce very quickly, and the Institute of Oceanography regularly collects coral eggs. After artificial cultivation, most of these coral eggs are released into Xisha. But there are still many coral polyps released into the waters around Hainan Island...
"This matter is very complicated. All we can do is ban the sale of skin care products and sunscreens that will damage coral reefs in Wanxian County," said Secretary Wan.
Chen Yuan nodded and said: "There is one more thing. There is a mother coral reef on Xiaoshan Island. I spent a lot of money to get these mother coral reefs back to China. The Institute of Oceanography is opposed to the development of Changzhou, and the mother coral reefs on Xiaoshan Island are Coral reefs have a big reason for that.”
Secretary Wan and County Magistrate Li looked puzzled.
"Ordinary corals ovulate once a year. The mother coral group on Xiaoshan Island is very special. They will lay eggs collectively in three or four months, in large numbers. Moreover, there are many types of corals on Xiaoshan Island, and corals will spawn almost every month. "
Different corals have different spawning periods.
However, the mother coral group has a particularly high number of production times.
"Every time the corals on Xiaoshan Island reproduce in large numbers, the research institute will come to collect coral eggs for cultivation. The overall coral reefs in the South China Sea show a growth trend..." Chen Yuan talked about the importance of Xiaoshan Island, and then said: "Chang After the island is developed, I am worried that tourists will go to Xiaoshan Island to dive on their own.”
Secretary Wan and others knew that there were numerous coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island, but they had only read about them online and did not know much about the coral reefs on Xiaoshan Island.
During each major spawning period on the coral reefs of Xiaoshan Island, the Institute of Marine Science and Technology collects billions of fertilized eggs. At the most, the institute hatched tens of millions of coral polyps.
According to associate professor Peter Harrison, a coral reef expert at Southern Cross University, there are three main factors that trigger spawning in corals.
First, seawater temperatures must gradually increase to trigger the maturation of eggs and sperm in adult corals.
Second, the lunar cycle coordinates the exact moment when the coral releases its precious cargo into the water.
Finally, stimulation is related to the day-night cycle - corals need the darkness of night to do wild things!
But on Xiaoshan Island, Chen Yuan used spiritual energy to stimulate coral polyps. Coral polyps in the mother coral group can lay eggs three to four times a year.
Other coral polyps are found in large numbers twice a year.
But there are many types of corals, and all on small mountain islands, corals spawn almost every month.
Coral spawning is greatly affected by tides. They all spawn when the water is the calmest. Spawning begins almost every month when the tidal range is the smallest.
At that time, the water was almost still, making it easier for coral eggs to be fertilized.
Little Mountain Island - Coral Coast Hotel.
Chen Yuan's Coral Coast Hotel itself is a business place. If Cheung Chau is developed, there will be more tourists...
Xiaoshan Island is not far from Cheung Chau.
At that time, not only Chen Yuan's business will be affected. The coral reefs in the Xiaoshan Island protective zone will definitely be affected as long as there are more divers and it is not a diving activity organized by the Coral Coast Hotel.
Even coral polyps nourished by spiritual energy are not particularly tenacious.
In the diving activities organized by Chen Yuan and others at the Coral Coast Hotel, no one is allowed to spray sunscreen on their body, let alone wear makeup when diving.
After Secretary Wan heard what Chen Yuan said, it was indeed a problem.
"In this way..." County Magistrate Li said: "It is forbidden to organize diving activities in hotels in Changzhou, and jet skis are also prohibited. Yachts going out to sea must be pure electric yachts..."
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One month later.
Passed the environmental assessment review.
Chen Yuan explained to the Institute of Oceanography that the development of Cheung Chau would not damage the coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island, but the institute still disagreed.
Chen Yuan finally proposed to move part of the mother coral group in Xiaoshan Island's coral protection zone and donate these living corals to the Marine Research Institute. The environmental assessment was then smoothly launched and passed.
The main purpose of organizing the development of Cheung Chau is to protect the coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island. The coral reefs here seem to be mutants, and the coral polyps bred on Xiaoshan Island have degenerated. With the mother coral reef, there is no fear that the environment here will be destroyed and these mutant corals will wash away.
Extinction, the project review process proceeds smoothly.
On Xiaoshan Island, the coral reef population is very large.
Mother coral is the fastest growing coral. A few years ago, a small lump was left behind, with the coral skeleton estimated to be two to three kilograms. Now most of the corals have grown to more than fifty kilograms.
These mother corals will reproduce once every few months when nourished by spiritual energy.
Different types of coral polyps have different life cycles. Some coral polyps only last about two years, but some coral polyps live very long...