On September 26, Dongying City, Shandong Province invited media representatives 
from the United States, Australia, India, South Africa, and Pakistan to join a 
media tour entitled "Building an Ecological Dongying where the Yellow River 
Enters the Sea" in an effort to show the world the unique wetland scenery of 
the Yellow River Delta.

Dongying has in recent years made great progress in its urban ecological 
environment and built itself into a wetland city, according to the Information 
Office of the People's Government of Dongying. It has fast become an ecological 
city with a comfortable atmosphere and ecological livability. Its wetland, 
urban landscape, and urban parks all make it an internationally well-known 
wetland city.

Dongying has a wetland area of 4,567.73 square kilometers, accounting for 
41.58% of the city's land. The local government implemented a program to 
introduce birds into Dongying. Oriental storks now make their home in the urban 
area, and the Swan Lake flood storage and detention project has welcomed its 
first migrating swans. There are 371 species of birds in the Yellow River Delta 
National Nature Reserve, including 90 national first- and second-level key 
protected birds, such as red-crowned cranes and Oriental storks. Millions of 
birds in the migration season stop over in the National Nature Reserve, making 
it a key site for stopovers, wintering, and breeding for the bird migration 
route of East Asia-Australia and the Western Pacific Rim.

While ensuring strict protection, Dongying has made full use of its three 
globally leading tourism resources, i.e. "the intersection of the Yellow River 
and East China Sea, new wetland, and wild birds". It has planned and 
implemented a number of high-quality cultural tourism projects, and the Yellow 
River Estuary Eco-tourism Area has become a national 5A level tourist 
destination.

Source: Information Office of the People's Government of Dongying

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   Caption: Foreign friends visit the Bird Museum of the Yellow River Estuary 
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   Caption: The natural wonder of the Yellow River entering East China Sea

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   Caption: Storks and cranes fly in the Yellow River Delta National Nature 
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