Study on Creating an Integrated Management Strategy for the Yellow River Delta and Its Ambient Sea Area

Since the Yellow River Delta is a part of the river-land-sea system, the paper proposes a new strategy for creating an integrated management system for the delta and its interconnected bodies of waters based on current ecological and environmental issues. The strategy advocate: (a) ensuring relatively even distribution of the Yellow River’s water, sediment and nutrients along the delta’s coast via multiple avenues of dissemination and scientific management methods; (b) making the channel on the delta narrow and deep to economize water volume for sediment transportation to the sea; (c) making good use of river sediment to raise the height of the delta and increase the groundwater depth and reduce soil salinity; and (d) implementing land-sea integration policies on the western coast of the Bohai Sea and its upper area to manage the whole region’s environmental resources and reduce pollution in the delta’s waters.