10 years ago Beijing had given Dali government funds to create plans and build waste water treatment infrastructure..
Dali government did nothing for 10 years.
Now they are in a panic to get the lake clean. solution??? close everything(mostly illegal permits) to save our jobs.

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Fu Xian Lake is on the same timeline for ecological reform as Er Hai .

Fu Xian.. removed villages on it's shores,removed hotels, stopped construction of illegal hotels, built buffer swamps for runoff, built sewage treatment plants, removed farming on the lake side.

Dali/Er Hai...Sold hundreds of permits for construction, no buffer swamps,

no sewage treatment.....

Here's a recent article on why those businesses are closing (temporarily):

www.gokunming.com/[...]

@Yereth thanks for sharing the interesting article. I'm going to Dali by train tonight from my home in LiJiang.