Caofeidian, mapped to become China’s largest steel production base by 2010, has been designated as a model for the country’s environment friendly industrial base and is set to recycle 99.5 percent of its solid waste and 99.7 percent of all waste water. Caofeidian, once a small sand spit in the Bohai Bay, now comprises land of more than 50 square km through a decade a construction and suction …[more]