The press corps from China also eased their curiosity for the Four Rivers Restoration Project by field visit. The 11 members of the press corps from China, who entered to Korea to attend International Environment Forum, visited the Seungcheon Weir, the 6th Zone and estuary barrage of the Yeongsan River on June 18th. From the head officer of Iksan district and chief of construction supervision gave them a briefing and then introduce another construction site in estuary barrage of the Yeongsan River where they were informed with briefing about present status of structure enhancement enterprise.
They were amazed at systematic progress of the enterprise on the Yeongsan River; moreover, they seemingly sympathized with benchmarking for future enterprises of Chinese rivers. Especially they threw questions to the officials about concrete methods of implementation like how to contract, procure finances, investigate cultural properties and fulfill the environmental effects evaluation. PAN Xu-Lin, the chief reporter among them expressed a fragment of her impression, "I would like to introduce the Korean case of rivers restoration. As to the Yeongsan River, it gave me a deep impact to me with well arranged procedures through all the progress."
