Central China Province to Set Up Asia's Largest Aquatic Museum

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 ◆ Central China Province to Set Up Asia's Largest Aquatic Museum

A museum of aquatic resources, believed to be the largest in Asia, will be set up in Whuan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

Officials said at a corner stone laying ceremony held recently that the museum is built on the basis of five aquariums in the Wuhan Institute of Hydrobiology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The museum boasts a wide variety of specimens of freshwater fish, algae and other marine resources and a specimen of the Chinese white dolphin, called "the panda of the ocean" for its rarity, is also preserved in the museum.

The museum, covering 5,000 square meters, will be completed this year.