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		Located in Jinagxi province, Poyang Lake is the largest fresh lake in China.
		Containing about 97% of Jiangxi province region, the Poyang Lake watershed is one of the most rich, economically developed areas in Chinese history.
		Poyang Lake is an important international wetland, and an important storage lake for the main stream of Yangtze River.
	chinadatacenter.org /newcdc/news/NewsListDetail.asp?ID=430 (288 words)

	CMS - Convention on Migratory Species - Convention sur Espèces Migratrices - Convenio sobre Especies Migratorias
		The area of the lake is subject to dramatic changes in water levels, shrinking to a tenth of this size in winter, when a complex of shallow lakes, mudflats and wet grasslands form around the periphery, which also make Lake Poyang one of the most biodiversity-rich areas in China.
		Its purpose is to promote the sustainable development of China’s largest fresh water lake, Poyang Lake, and its watershed (short MRL region) through mobilizing the participation of local communities and the establishment of partnerships among different stakeholders: Farmers, local communities, government agencies, and enterprises should contribute to solving the issues of ecological degradation and poverty.
		Since 2002, MRLSD is also the Living Lakes partner in China to promote comprehensive collaboration worldwide in order to enhance the protection, restoration and rehabilitation of Lake Poyang in China as well as lakes, wetlands, other freshwater bodies of the world and their catchment areas.
	www.cms.int /about/partnerships/gnf_lakepoyang.htm (811 words)

	Damming The Three Gorges - Chapter Six - Downstream Environmental Impacts
		Poyang Lake in Jiangxi province is influenced by the seasonal high-water levels in the Yangtze River as well as in the rivers in Jiangxi province which flow into it.
		Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China and fluctuates from under 1000 square kilometres in the dry season to 4000 square kilometres in the flood season.
		Between Poyang Lake and the city of Wuhan, the Yangtze River and its banks and dykes are used extensively by local fishermen and by farmers grazing livestock.
	www.threegorgesprobe.org /pi/documents/three_gorges/Damming3G/ch06.html (3719 words)

	CHINA FACTS & FIGURES 2002 - china.org.cn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Large lakes are mainly distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
		The Poyang Lake in the south of the Yangtze River is the largest freshwater lake in China while the Qinghai Lake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the largest saltwater lake.
		Poyang Lake: A freshwater lake, it is located in Jiangxi Province and covers 3,583 square km, with an elevation of 21 meters and a depth of 16 meters.
	china-hiking.com /ChinaStatus/geography/Lakes.htm (321 words)

	Welcome to Visit the Web On Poyang Lake of Jiangxi
		The southern part is the main lake, with the length of 133km and the furthest width of 74km.
		Since it possesses humid monsoon climate, Poyang Lake becomes accordingly "the country of rivers and green grass, and blooming plums in the misty rain", and "a land flowing with milk and honey".
		Poyang Lake was the only waterway to Jiangxi from the north in ancient time.
	www.poyanglake.net /pyhgk.htm (1152 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The lake helps regulate water in the Yangtze River by providing water to the river during low water periods and receiving water from the river during the high water period.
		Poyang is a shallow lake that "has a vast expanse of surface when much water flows in but becomes rather a line when dried up" (Jin 1995).
		Poyang Lake lies at the convergence of 5 rivers, the Ganjiang River, the Fuhe River, the Xinhe River, the Raohe River and the Xiushui River.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8630 (489 words)

	Poyang Lake Migratory Bird Protection Area, Jiujiang Jiangxi China
		The migratory bird protection area of the Poyang Lake is located south of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, China.
		With average area of 3,583km, the Poyang Lake is the biggest freshwater lake in China and the water is vast.
		There are many lake beaches and grass islands around the lake, the water grass, spiral, shell and so forth in the islands and beaches become the rich food for the migratory birds.
	www.china-travel-tour-guide.com /attractions/poyang-lake.shtml (475 words)

	ESA - Observing the Earth - Earth from Space: Poyang Lake, China
		Poyang Lake is situated in Jiangxi Province, around 50 kilometres north of the city of Nanchang (outside the image).
		Poyang Lake is connected to the Yangtze (Chiang Jiang) River through a narrow channel, exiting at the top left corner of the image.
		Improved understanding of Poyang Lake's annual dynamic promises to aid flood mitigation, and as part of ESA's Dragon Programme of cooperation with China, Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) monitored Poyang Lake's hydrological cycle in detail during 2004 and 2005.
	www.esa.int /esaEO/SEM627MZCIE_index_2.html (356 words)

	Poyang Lake Revitalized
		The environment of China's biggest freshwater lake, Poyang in eastern China, has benefited from the lake's expansion, said experts at an ongoing conference.
		With the expansion of its water acreage and floodwater storage, Poyang Lake has begun again to partially regulate the climate and water quality, the experts acknowledged, saying that Poyang is the biggest flood control lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
		And at the end of 2004, the acreage of Poyang Lake grew from 3,900 to 5,100 sq km.
	www.china.org.cn /english/China/128359.htm (233 words)

	Poyang Lake, Jiujiang Travel, Jiangxi Attractions
		Having experienced many geological changes, Poyang Lake is now wide in the south and narrow in the north, like a huge gourd tied on the waist of the Yangtze River.
		Poyang Lake is a resplendent pearl on the vast Chinese territory.
		Poyang Lake is rich in aquatic plants, which create a hospitable environment for many rare species of freshwater fish.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/jiangxi/jiujiang/poyang.htm (1715 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The lake's area, which normally is 2,820 kmÂ², may increase to 20,000 kmÂ² in flood season, when vast amounts of water and sediment from the Chang Jiang flow into the lake.
		The basin of Dongting Lake and its surrounding area is famous for its scenic beauty, which has been encapsulated in the phrase çæ¹æ¹—å— (xiao1 xiang1 hu2 nan2; "Hunan of the Xiao and Xiang rivers").
		In 2007 fears were expressed that China's finless porpoise, a native of the lake, might follow the baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, into extinction.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dongting_Lake (611 words)

	Chinese Lakes-Virtual Science Museum of China
		Poyang Lake, located in the north of Jiangxi Province on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, got its name from the Poyang Mountain nearby.
		It is one of the youngest lakes in China, which took its shape in around 400 BC with a history of about 1600 years.
		The lake is distinguished for its cultural heritage and is mentioned in history for its being a battlefield in ancient times.
	www.kepu.com.cn /english/lake/interest/200309250044.html (368 words)

	Lake Poyang
		Abacci > Abaccipedia > La > Lake Poyang
		Lake Poyang, located in Jiangxi Province, is the largest freshwater lake in China.
		Poyang hu yan jiu =: Studies on Poyang Lake
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Lake_Poyang (77 words)

	SCWP \| Poyang Lake Basin \| China
		Poyang Lake Basin is situated between 28° 11’ – 29° 1’ N longitude and 115° 49’ – 116° 46’ E latitude.
		Poyang Lake Basin is composed of the largest fresh water lakes in a near-natural state in China, marshes, wet grassland and alluvial floodplains.
		The project aims to extend the network of protected areas within Poyang Lake Basin, including the upgrading of Nanjisan Provincial NR to a national level reserve, and establishment of new nature reserves within the basin by the end of the project period.
	www.scwp.info /china/poyanglake.shtml (558 words)

	Dragon Palace Cave & Poyang Lake
		The surface area of China’s largest freshwater lake is around 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles), increasing in size during the flood season and shrinking in winter.
		The Yangzi, Poyang Lake and the Gan River form a link, via the Meiling Pass on the border between Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces, as far south as Guangzhou.
		The pursuing Immortal, confronting them at Poyang Lake, threw his flying sword at the precious umbrella and, in her confusion, Xiaogu Niang Niang lost one of her embroidered slipper’s, when fell into the lake and was transformed into a shoe-shaped island.
	www.discoveryangtze.com /Yangtzediscovery/dragon_palace_cave_poyang_lake.htm (473 words)

	Mexico’s Largest Lake is Shrinking Fast
		The lake suffers from increasing diversions of water from its tributaries for irrigation purposes and for the water supply of the metropolis Guadala-jara.
		Lake Chapala is expected to become a member of the international Living Lakes partner-ship, a network of 30 organisations from 23 lake regions worldwide striving for the protection of lakes and wetlands.
		Other lakes to become a member of the world’s largest international lake network are Lake Victoria in East Africa, Lake Poyang in China and the Lakes Vortsjärv and Peipsi in Estonia-Russia.
	www.aquamedia.at /templates/index.cfm?id=9609 (443 words)

	Summer Camp Set Up in Poyang Lake
		A summer camp was set up in Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake, on Friday by the Living Lakes Network, the first such activity held here since the lake joined the network last year.
		Poyang was enrolled as a member of the network in 2003, which is the only member in China.
		The Living Lakes Network is a network of projects focusing on the protection of lakes and wetland areas around the world.
	www.china.org.cn /english/environment/102054.htm (226 words)

	Poyang Lake: saving the finless porpoise \| 鄱阳湖：江豚已没有退路
		On Poyang Lake, I witnessed the shocking effects of large-scale sand dredging, which is threatening the survival of the finless porpoise.
		Poyang Lake’s finless porpoises make up a quarter of the country's total population of the animal, which are mostly otherwise confined to small streams.
		Zhou Junqi, director of fisheries for the area around the lake’s mouth, in Jiangxi province, said that the sand dredging first began in Poyang Lake after large-scale flooding in 1998.
	www.chinadialogue.net /article/show/single/en/839-Poyang-Lake-saving-the-finless-porpoise (1844 words)

	JiangXi-China
		Poyang Lake, in Jiangxi Province, stands as China's biggest freshwater lake.
		Poyang Lake is a major habitat for the Yangtze finless porpoise and fishing in the lake is currently prohibited.
		Unfortunately, environmental pollution and the change in aquatic ecology have caused the Yangtze porpoises' number to drop to under 2,000 at a diminishing rate of 7.3 percent each year, placing it on the cusp of extinction.
	www.jxcn.cn /269/2007-4-3/30012@299529.htm (269 words)

	Poyang Lake, China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It is situated in the Jiangxi Province, approximately 50 km north of Nanchang.
		The lake is connected to the Yangtse River (Chang Jiang) through a 1 km long channel and serves as a natural overflow reservoir.
		The Living Lakes partner organisation at Lake Poyang is MRLSD (Promotion Association for Mountain-River-Lake Regional Sustainable Development), a non-governmental non-profit organisation located in Nanchang (Jiangxi Province).
	www.livinglakes.org /poyang (463 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 2007 fears were expressed that China's finless porpoise, known locally as the jiangzhu or "river pig", a native of the lake, might follow the baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin, into extinction.
		Large ships enter and leave the lake at the rate of two a minute and such a high density of shipping means the porpoises have difficulty hearing their food, and also cannot swim freely from one bank to the other.
		In 1363, the Battle of Lake Poyang took place there, and it is claimed to be the Largest naval battle in history.
	www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Lake_Boyang (475 words)

	Dragon over water: Envisat monitors China's largest lake, rivers flooding
		Poyang Lake is situated in Jiangxi Province, around 50 kilometres north of the city of Nanchang.
		Poyang Lake is connected to the Yangtze (Chiang Jiang) River through a narrow channel.
		Spatial analysis of the results throws up a lively picture: less than 10% of the maximal Lake surface is made up of perennial water bodies, with 38% of the surface covered by water more than six months a year, and a little more than 50% covered by water for less than six months.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-11/esa-dow112205.php (1136 words)

	Poyang Lake - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Poyang, Lake, inland stretch of water, northern Jiangxi province, south-eastern China, fed by various rivers around most of Jiangxi, most notably...
		Most of the important lakes of China lie along the middle and lower Yangzi Valley.
		The two largest in the middle portion are the Dongting and Poyang....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Poyang_Lake.html (106 words)

	Studies of aquatic habitats at Poyang Lake, China
		Poyang Lake is one of the most important wintering places for migratory waterbirds in Asia.
		It is the largest freshwater lake in China, with an area of 3,955 km2 in flood season.
		Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve (PNR) is located south of the Yangtze River, in northern Jiangxi Province.
	www.cms.int /news/PRESS/nwPR2003/nw020503_Poyang.htm (270 words)

	Poyang - Encyclopedia.com
		Poyang or P'o-yang, shallow lake, c.1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km), N Jiangxi prov., SE China; one of China's largest lakes.
		The lake basin is one of China's richest rice-producing regions.
		View of a rubbish dump on the edge of drought affected Poyang...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Poyang.html (259 words)

	Wetland conservation in China
		Poyang Lake, and the Status of Chinese Wetlands
		Lake Poyang is the largest lake in China, in the floodplain of the five inflowing rivers, and also receives backflow from the Chang Jiang (Yangtse River) at the height of the flood.
		In recognition of its exceptional importance, the Jiangxi Poyang Lake National Nature Reserve was one of the six wetlands designated for the List of Wetlands of International Importance when China became a Contracting Party to the Ramsar Convention in 1992.
	www.ramsar.org /about/about_poyang.htm (4762 words)

	China Travel Festivals - Central China Tour
		The beautiful lake is situated between Honghu and Yanli counties in the southeast of Jingzhou.
		Poyang Lake is the largest winter habitat for white cranes.
		The Lotus Lake, known as the lake within lake, is especially attractive in July, August and October, with countless flowers in full bloom.
	www.asia-planet.net /china/central-china-tour.htm (788 words)

	Article/Video Detail - China As You Have Never Seen It Before! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With average area of 3,583km, the Poyang Lake is the biggest freshwater lake in China and the water is vast.
		There are many lake beaches and grass islands around the lake, the water grass, spiral, shell and so forth in the islands and beaches become the rich food for the migratory birds.
		Regarded Wucheng Town of Yongxiu Prefecture in Jiangxi Province as the center, the migratory bird protection area of the Poyang Lake covers nine lakes of the Poyang Lake and occupies an area of 224 square km.
	www.chinaontv.com /ArtDetail.aspx?sm=234&ai=654 (532 words)

	Poyang Nature Reserve - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Situated in northern Jiangxi,Poyang Lake,the largest fresh water lake in China, lies to the south of the middle and lower reaches of the Changjiang River.
		The lake has been well known as "a land of abundance" and is reputed as a "bright pearl" in the basin of the Changjiang River with its rich aquatic resources and flourishing crops in surrounding fertile lands.
		The lake area enjoys a subtropical warm and wet climate with suffucuent sunshine, ample precipitation and long frost-free period.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/107 (591 words)

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