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… cities were even geographically close to existing or planned offshore drilling platforms. More importantly, since the late 1970s, central government policies have defined these cities as “Coastal Opening Cities” or “Special Economic Zones” to promote foreign investment and international trade[2], thus indicating their economic and political significance in modern Chinese society. These advantages make this study's target cities ideal locations to survey coastal Chinese attitudes about offshore … Yellow Emperor, the existing earliest Chinese medical work, has recorded the medical effects of some marine mollusks such as inkfish and abalone (Ni, 1995). Besides, early in Shang dynast (BC 1600), seashells was already used as currency in commodity exchange (Yang & Chen, 2000). It goes without saying that ancient Chinese had not only understood the living habits of certain marine life, but also mastered and incorporated the knowledge of marine life into their daily life. Both consuming and … in north China. The self-sufficient target of the natural economy, on the one hand, determines the cultivation production stay small-scale. As long as family needs are adequately satisfied, farmers usually have scarce interest in producing more for trading. Instead, diversifying their agriculture forms based on the geophysical environment, including fishing, sericulture, citrus, and tea planting, usually attracts more attention for farmers. On the other hand, the self-sufficient goal shapes the …