The site, located on the Qi’Ao Island, 27 square kilometer island in the north of Zhuhai, has the potential to become a gateway for Hong Kong - Shenzhen due to its strategic location and the increasing passenger flows through it. The island is threatened to become another generic Chinese urbanization that spread across farmlands. Thus the signs of scarcity of water resources, deforestation, fish farming and industrial pollution are already present.
The new urban agglomeration proposal seeks to establish an eco-tourism strategy that embraces the site and its natural energies such as tidal variations, local flora and seasonal rainfall to assure the viability and sustainability of the island.