Social Response of Phoenix Island Hotel in Sanya

In the real estate boom in Hainan, Sanya will invest 2.8 billion yuan to build a seven-star hotel with a floor of 108 and a height of over 300 meters on an artificial island. Once the news was sent out, it immediately attracted criticism from citizens and netizens: Sanya Bay has been filled in a large area, and now it has to be rebuilt, and the ecological balance has been destroyed; Hainan has missed several opportunities to legislate to protect the coastal zone in the past, but now it is facing the situation of water under the bridge. Is it a feat or fanaticism to invest 2.8 billion yuan to build a 7.23-hectare artificial island and then build a seven-star hotel with a floor of 108 more than 300 meters high on the island?

Once this artificial reclamation plan was released, it became the focus of contradictions among all parties and caused great controversy in Hainan. People are worried that reclamation will cause damage to the marine environment, and even repeat the mistakes of Dubai's shrinking and sinking, while officials say there is no need to worry.

Once the news that Millennium Hotel passed the EIA was released, it attracted the attention of many netizens. It is not difficult to find comments on this matter in the Hainan section of major forums. Netizens generally think that it is ok to build a seven-star hotel with a floor of 100 in Sanya, but why do you have to build an island from the sea? The netizens' questions mainly focused on: "Why did Sanya build an artificial island from the sea?" "How big is the impact of reclamation on the marine ecological environment?" "Will Sanya become the second Dubai?"

Although there is no shortage of land in Sanya, the biggest feature and most attractive place in Hainan is the saying of "seascape", which virtually divides the land into three or six grades. So since there are not many seascapes left in front of us, why not reclaim land from the sea? Although the cost of land reclamation is not low and the time is still long, the economic benefits will be higher accordingly, saving a lot of troubles such as land acquisition and demolition.

"After filling the sea in this way, there is so much cement, and the foundation of 108 layer has to be beaten. Isn't it driving marine life to the point of homelessness? " Some netizens said that the Beibu Gulf, which is adjacent to Hainan, is an earthquake active zone, and many typhoons land every year. In addition to destroying the marine ecological environment, building hotels by sea is also worthy of attention.

Zhu Yuehua, the leader of the expert evaluation team of reclamation project and an ocean expert, said in an interview that "Why should Millennium Hotel be selected in the original tropical ocean park on the west coast of Sanya" and "Why should the island be reclaimed" are also the focus of the expert group's consideration in the site selection demonstration of Millennium Hotel. The demonstration of the project is mainly based on the following two points: First, the tropical marine world is poorly managed and closed for many years. It is a pity that such good land and natural resources are idle and wasted; Second, the International Convention and Exhibition Center covers an area of 654.38+10,000 mu, with high construction and operation costs, but little income. The government must compensate the developers through supporting projects such as Millennium Hotel, otherwise no one will invest. Building hotels on artificial islands is very attractive to developers.

"Any reclamation project will have a certain impact on the marine environment. Judging from the information and situation currently available, the artificial island project of Millennium Hotel has little impact on the surrounding ecological environment. " Zhu Yuehua introduced that the assessment team is mainly composed of seven experts including geology, ocean, environment and biology. Everyone made a full scientific demonstration from the aspects of the site selection of artificial islands, the geological structure of the seabed, and the impact on tidal current and surrounding organisms after completion.

The judging panel believes that, firstly, the artificial island is 268 meters away from the coast, and the numerical simulation experiment proves that the construction of the artificial island in this position has the least impact on tidal current and basically will not cause siltation in the sea area between the artificial island and the coast. Secondly, the selected sea area is not an ecologically sensitive area, a rare marine organism area, a marine organism spawning ground, a feeding ground, a migration passage, a commercial aquaculture area and a coral mangrove nature reserve, so basically it has little impact on marine and coastal organisms. In addition, the coast of this sea area is mostly rocky reefs, which basically has no impact on the beach.

Can a building with a floor of 108 and a height of more than 300 meters be built on the artificial island? Zhu Yuehua believes that the geological foundation of this sea area is relatively good, mainly basalt. Judging from the existing data, there is no need to worry about geological problems at all, and there will be no shrinking and sinking like the artificial island in Dubai.

Zhu Yuehua believes that although there are many controversies caused by land reclamation, land reclamation has never stopped in the world. The advantages of regional location, transportation and ecological environment determine that land reclamation is the general trend. Hainan's land reclamation is in the initial stage, and the action is very small, which is much smaller than Tianjin Binhai New Area, Shanghai Pudong Airport and Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. Therefore, the advantages and disadvantages of land reclamation need further discussion and verification, and we can neither blindly follow the trend nor kill with a stick.