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Bohai Sea (Chinese: 渤海; pinyin: Bó Hăi), also known as Bohai Bay or Bohai Gulf, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. It is approximately 78,000 km², and its proximity to Beijing, the capital of China, make it one of the busiest seaways in the world.

In recent decades, petroleum and natural gas deposits have been discovered in Bohai.

Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Pollution 4 Jiaozhou Bay-Laizhou Bay Canal 5 See also 6 External links

The gulf is formed by the Liaodong Peninsula to the northeast and the Shandong Peninsula to the south. Bo Hai consists of three bays: Laizhou Bay to the south, Liaodong Bay to the north, and Bohai Bay to the west. The rivers Huang He, Liao He, Hai He and Luan River empty into Bo Hai.

Bo Hai borders the Chinese provinces of Shandong, Liaoning, and Hebei, and Tianjin municipality. Port cities on Bo Hai coast include:

• Hebei: Qinhuangdao
• Liaoning: Dalian, Huludao, Jinzhou, Yingkou
• Shandong: Longkou, Weihai, Yantai
• Tianjin: Tanggu

Islands include:

• Zhifu Island, part of Yantai City, Shandong Province

In literature until the early 20th century, Bo Hai was sometimes called Gulf of Chihli (直隸 Zhílì) or the Gulf of Pechihli (北直隸 Běizhílì). Zhili and Beizhili were old names for the contemporary Chinese province of Hebei.

In October, 2006, experts predicted that a failure to control pollution will cause the Bohai Sea to die within a decade.^{[citation needed]}

A Xinhua News Agency report in February, 2007, painted a terrible scene: “Effluent has turned the sea a dark red and given it an acrid stench at Guanxi’s Silver Beach, a national tourist attraction. Local staff it is not the first time this has happened – sometimes it occurs every few days. they blame the cleaning run-off from nearby shellfish processing plants.” [1]

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In April, 2004, an official of the Shandong province raised the possibility of constructing a canal between Jiaozhou Bay and Laizhou Bay as a means of easing the pollution problem in the Bohai Sea. [2] The proposed canal will also be open to ships traveling between Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. A meeting held in Qingdao in October, 2006, was attended by more than a hundred members of the academia.

• Bohai Bay
• Balhae
• Bijia mountain

• [3] 中国与世界，环境危机大家谈 - China's water resources - environmental security needed
• [4] 國家擬投千億 開鑿運河連通渤黃 Retrieved November 23, 2007.