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Planted in the 1950s, the Qinhuangdao Forest covers 233 hectares (576 acres). The city of Qinhuangdao is a port city in Hebei Province renowned for being the worlds biggest coal hub and its proximity to the eastern end of the Great Wall of China. Forestation was both an attempt to form a windbreak for the city, and a way of mitigating the coastal erosion that was threatening rail links to the strategically important city on the edge of the Bohai Sea.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2015). Qinhuangdao Forest Park. In: Eco-Landscape Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07206-7_4
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