Construction has begun on a center to facilitate academic
research on Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake and an
internationally important wetland, in Jiangxi Province.
The center, in Xingzi county, on the northwestern side of the
lake, will be completed in three years.
It will comprise a station and observation outpost that would
track the impact of the Three Gorges Project on the environment of
the Yangtze River in its lower reaches, and a facility for the
prevention and control of water-borne diseases.
(China Daily October 25, 2005)
