Wuhan - Ecological Restoration Project of Jinkou Landfill

　　In January 2009, the city of Wuhan proposed plans of comprehensive control, ecological restoration and comprehensive utilisation for the closed landfill of Jinkou. In 2012, Wuhan decided to restore Jinkou landfill in an ecological way, and to redevelop the area as the main meeting place for the 10th session of China’s International Garden Expo in Wuhan in 2015.

　　At the beginning of 2014, the landfill was ecologically restored, by introducing different plant varieties, promoting the continuity of the fundamental ecological system, improving the foundation soil quality, purifying the remaining soil and restoring green land. Two sections were heavily polluted and another two sections were moderately polluted, which would have taken 30 years for natural degradation to occur.

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