The wetlands have been under threat from land reclamation for aquaculture and food crops, road building, pollution from upstream and invasion of alien species.
The Manila-based ADB said it approved a $650 000 grant to help Beijing launch a protection project for the four million-hectare stretch of mud flats, creeks, salt marshes and reed beds on the east China coast that is threatened by environmental degradation.
Source: fin24.co.za