Those projects are intended to develop ocean resources through seawater desalination, seawater circulation cooling, and seawater chemicals extraction.

    The Qingdao Baifa Seawater Desalination Project, China’s biggest city seawater desalination project, has been finished and could produce as much as 100,000 tons of fresh water for residents in the city every day.

    The project is expected to supply water starting 2012.

    For better utilization of the seawater, the city will expand the scale of desalination projects.

    In 2013, as much as 140,000 tons of fresh water will be produced every day.

    Moreover, there are plans to build another two seawater desalination plants in 2014 and 2015 which will increase seawater desalination capacity to 250,000 to 300,000 tons per day.

    “The fresh water produced from seawater will go to households through the current tap water system,” said a source from the city’s water supply department.

    The city consumes an average of 600,000 tons of fresh water every day. Upon completion, the project could supply water to about 500,000 residents in the city and save more than 36 million tons of fresh water every year due to its high desalinating ability.(Chen Ting, Gong Hesheng)