Create an Educational Field Trip to The Field Museum Field Update 3. We elected to begin by extending our coverage to the south toward Rizhao city. Consequently, we are walking about 12 kilometers south of Liangchengzhen and 9 kilometers north of the rapidly growing eastern section of Rizhao. We chose to focus first on this southern area because Rizhao is building and expanding so quickly.
Cranes dot the skyline.
Other new structures, like the Rizhao Museum, where we have storage space for our supplies and collections, have been built. Shortly thereafter, commercial enterprises moved into this coastal area and the new part of Rizhao became the key part of town. The rapid tempo of this growth is apparent as we survey. We are now using wonderful Chinese topographic maps that are only 13 years old. Yet in the area where we are now working, we find many new buildings, freshly constructed roads, and villages that are spread over twice the space that they used less than two decades ago.