Cheung Chau.

This large piece of land is located in a relatively remote area.

If it is more than ten years, this land has no value.

But with the development of these new years, high-quality seascape resources are becoming more and more scarce.

Cheung Chau is backed by a lagoon and faces the sea, with a 10-kilometre long sandy beach. The quality of the beach was not very good, but over the years, with the continuous strengthening of environmental protection, the sand of Cheung Chau Beach has become much whiter.

Then there is the lagoon that has been managed. Patches of corals off Cheung Chau......

In shallower waters, the water reflects the color of the coral, and the surface of the sea has a slight color.

The surface of the sea has a color, that is, the visibility of the seawater.

In recent years......

It should be a few years before Chen Yuan came to Xiaoshan Island, Wanxian was planning the development plan of Cheung Chau, and opened up many joints for this.

Chen Yuan contracted Xiaoshan Island and opened a hotel on the island, which was also a chess piece for the development of Cheung Chau.

But in just a few short years, the waters around Xiaoshan Island have been cultivated into large coral reefs. What Secretary Wan didn't expect was that the sea near Xiaoshan Island was ...... That is, the sea off Cheung Chau has been designated as a coral reef reserve.

If it weren't for the coral reef reserve, the development of Cheung Chau might have been on the agenda by now.

In recent years, the global economy has been doing well, 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.

Now if you don't get the review documents needed for development faster, start the project earlier...... In a few years, there may be another war, and the global economy will enter a cold winter again......

Many joints in Cheung Chau's opening plan have been opened, and a marine assessment report is needed now.

"Actually...... Cheung Chau development has little impact on the corals of Xiaoshan Island. Chen Yuan said: "But there are still some things, there are more people, and it is estimated that the number of people who almost go to sea to dive will also increase." There are some sunscreens, skin care products, that are particularly damaging to coral reefs. Nowadays, there are many tourist islands abroad, and certain sunscreens and skin care products have long been banned. ”

Chen Yuan said this to the Institute of Oceanography.

There is also a push to ban sunscreens and skincare products that damage coral reefs from Hainan.

Coral reproduction occurs quickly on this side of the island, and the Institute of Oceanography regularly comes to collect coral eggs. Most of these coral eggs are artificially cultivated and released into the Xisha Islands. However, many polyps are still being released in the waters around Hainan Island......

"It's complicated. We can only do to ban the sale of skin care products and sunscreens that damage coral reefs in Wanxian County. Secretary Wan said.

Chen Yuan nodded and said, "There is one more thing. Xiaoshan Island has mother reefs, which I spent a lot of money abroad to get back home. The Institute of Oceanography is opposed to the development of Cheung Chau, and there is a big reason for the parent coral reef of Xiaoshan Island. ”

Secretary Wan and County Magistrate Li looked puzzled.

"Ordinary coral, ovulating once a year. The mother coral colonies of Xiaoshan Island are very special, and they will spawn en masse in three or four months, and there are many of them. In addition, there are many types of corals on Koyama Island, and coral spawns almost every month. ”

Different corals have different spawning periods.

However, the mother coral group has a particularly high number of productions.

"Every time the corals on Koyama Island multiply, the research institute comes to collect coral eggs for cultivation. The coral reefs in the South China Sea as a whole are on the rise......" Chen Yuan said of the importance of Xiaoshan Island, and continued: "After the development of Cheung Chau, I am worried that there will be tourists who will go to Xiaoshan Island to dive on their own. ”

Secretary Wan and the others knew that there were coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island, but they had just read it on the Internet and didn't know much about the coral reefs of Xiaoshan Island.

During each major spawning period on the reef of Xiaoshan Island, the Institute of Oceanography collects billions of fertilized eggs. At the most time, tens of millions of coral polyps hatched at the institute.

According to Peter Harrison, associate professor of coral reef experts at Southern Cross University, there are three factors that primarily trigger coral spawning.

First, the sea temperature must gradually increase to trigger the maturation of eggs and sperm within the adult coral.

Secondly, the lunar cycle coordinates the exact moment when the coral releases its precious 'cargo' into the water.

Finally, the thrill has to do with the day-night cycle – corals need the darkness of the night to do wild things!

But on Xiaoshan Island, Chen Yuan used aura to stimulate polyps. The polyps of the parent coral colony can lay eggs three to four times a year.

Other polyps are abundant twice a year.

However, there are many types of corals, and all of them are located on small mountain islands, and coral spawns almost every month.

Coral spawning is greatly affected by the tides, and it is usually spawned when the sea is calmest, and almost every month when the tidal range is at its lowest, it begins to spawn.

At that time, the sea was almost stationary, and the coral eggs were more easily fertilized.

Little Hill Island – Coral Coast Hotel.

Chen Yuan's Coral Coast Hotel itself is a business place, and if Cheung Chau is developed, there will be more tourists by then......

Xiaoshan Island is not far from Cheung Chau.

At that time, not only Chen Yuan's business would be affected. As long as there are more divers in the coral reef of Xiaoshan Island and it is not a diving activity organized by the Coral Coast Hotel, the coral reefs in the reserve will definitely be affected.

Even if the polyp is nourished by the aura, life is not particularly tenacious.

Chen Yuan's diving activities organized by the Coral Coast Hotel, no one can spray sunscreen on their bodies, let alone wear makeup to dive.

Secretary Wan listened to what Chen Yuan said, and it was indeed a problem.

"That's ......," said County Magistrate Li, "It is forbidden to organize diving activities in hotels in Cheung Chau, and jet skiing is also prohibited. The yacht going to sea must be a pure electric yacht......"

……

A month later.

The environmental assessment has been approved.

Chen Yuan explained to the Institute of Oceanography that the development of Cheung Chau would not destroy the coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island, but the institute still disagreed.

Chen Yuan finally proposed to transfer part of the parent coral group in the coral protection zone of Xiaoshan Island, and donate these live corals to the Institute of Oceanography, and the environmental assessment was successfully carried out and then passed.

The main purpose of organizing Cheung Chau development is to protect the coral reefs around Xiaoshan Island. The coral reefs here appear to be mutated, and the polyps that breed on the hill islands are degraded. If you get the mother coral reef, you are not afraid that the environment here will be destroyed and these mutated corals will be washed away, and the review of the project will go smoothly.

On the hill island, the coral reef population is very large.

Parent corals are the fastest growing corals. A few years ago, I dropped a small lump with a coral skeleton estimated at two or three catties, and now most of the corals have grown to more than fifty catties.

These parent corals are nourished by the aura and reproduce once every few months.

Different species of polyps have different life cycles. Some polyps are on fire for about two years, but some are very long-lived......

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