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Video PlayerClose The natural shoreline project of Rizhao Port, with a total investment of 15 billion yuan (around 2.3 billion U.S. dollars), was recognized as China s first industrial port restoration and reconstruction project. The project vacated more than 133 hectares of industrial land at the port, including moving two major coal-handling zones, each capable of handling 100,000 tonnes of coal, to the south. A sand beach with a length of about 2 km and an area of 460,000 square meters, as well as several facilities such as museums and exhibition halls, were built to better integrate the area with the city s coastal landscape.
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Video PlayerClose Xihaigu was labeled the most unfit place for human settlement by the United Nations in the 1970s. Xihaigu s triumph over destitution, after reeling under poverty for centuries and carrying the tag of the most uninhabitable area on earth, offers a window into China s achievements in its war against poverty. In Xihaigu, one collective memory is the lack of water. The average water resources per person in Xihaigu is only one 22th of the country s average. The whole area of Xihaigu has bid farewell to extreme poverty, with all the nine counties and districts in the area delisted from the national poverty list. Xihaigu s current population is 2.4 million and all people live in places close to water diversion canals with easy access to water.