Review on current status and challenging issues of land subsidence in China

This paper presents a brief review on land subsidence and its investigation and remedial works made in China. The paper gives a summary on the current status and main features of land subsidence in China. The paper then discusses the research and technology transfer on land subsidence and its remediation in China. The paper discusses some challenge issues in land subsidence currently encountered in Shanghai, China. Based on the review, the paper gives some conclusions and recommendations to address land subsidence in China. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.