Foreign media: A study jointly completed by Chinese, American, and British research teams published in the journal "Nature" warns that Shanghai is continuously subsiding, while global sea levels are rising at the fastest rate in the past 4000 years. This "double impact" may threaten China's financial center and the global supply chain.
The study points out that the annual economic loss caused by ground subsidence in China is about 1.5 billion US dollars, and the loss in Shanghai alone between 2001 and 2020 exceeded 3 billion US dollars. Since most major cities such as Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong are located in delta regions, these geologically soft areas are naturally prone to subsidence.
The study shows that since 1900, the rate of global sea level rise is likely to exceed that of any century in the past 4000 years, with an average annual increase of about 1.5 millimeters; meanwhile, about 94% of rapid urban subsidence is due to human activities, and local subsidence rates can even exceed the rate of sea level rise.
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