() (Changsing) is a major island located in the eastern part of

Bohai Sea The Bohai Sea ( zh, c=渤海, p=Bó Hǎi, l=Bo Sea) is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects via the Bohai Strait. It ...

, off the coast of

Wafangdian Wafangdian (), formerly Fuhsien (Fuxian) or Fu County (), is one of the two "northern county-level city, county-level cities", the other being Zhuanghe, under the administration of Dalian, located in the south of Liaoning province, China. The c ...

Dalian Dalian ( ) is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang ...

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, China. It has a population of around 60,000.

General

Changxing Island is located in the eastern part of

, off the coast of

. It is the sixth largest island in

Greater China In ethnogeography, "Greater China" is a loosely-defined term that refers to the region sharing cultural and economic ties with the Chinese people, often used by international enterprises or organisations in unofficial usage. The notion contains ...

and the largest island north of the

Chongming Island Chongming (), Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanized as Chungming, is an alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze, Yangtze River in East China covering as of 2010. Together with the islands Changxing Island (Shanghai), Changxing an ...

on the

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. Its area is , running about east to west and north to south. Traditionally based on fishing and agriculture, its economy changed to distribution, industrial and resort development. It is an epicenter for the modernization of the

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Dalian Changxing Island Seaport Industrial Area

This industrial area consists of Changxing, Jiaoliu and three other islands, a total area of 350 square kilometers. It was made a Provincial Economic Development Zone by the

provincial government in January 2002, and later in 2006, was made part of the " Five Points, One Line" industrial zone development plan. Its management committee was established by the

municipal government in May 2005. There are already the following projects: * Connection by a bridge to the mainland * International golf course (Dalian Changxing Island Golf Resort, Japan) * Limestone mining (Nittetsu Mining,

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) * Large seaport * Large shipbuilding ( STX Corporation,

Korea Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...

) * Oxygen plant (

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, Japan) * Petrochemical complex *

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station

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* {{Authority control Bohai Sea Wafangdian Islands of Liaoning Special Economic Zones of China

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Dalian Changxing Island Seaport Industrial Area

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