China monitoring its 4,000 islands

By IANS,

Beijing : China has launched a monitoring programme through which it is collecting visual information of its about 4,000 islands lying around the country, a report said.

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According to the ministry of land and resources, the information is being collected via ground vehicles, planes and satellites, China Daily reported.

All the data are being processed and put into a database to strengthen island management, the report said.

The government last year released a list of uninhabited islands available for development across the country.

Ocean-related industries in China last year earned 4.56 trillion yuan (around $725 billion), an increase of 10.4 percent from 2010. This figure accounted for 9.7 percent of the country’s GDP.