270 million people are living on sinking land in China’s major cities, new study finds

Land is sinking under huge number of people groups' feet in China's significant urban communities because of human exercises, seriously jeopardizing the country's waterfront regions a greater amount of flooding and rising ocean levels, new examination shows.
Almost 50% of China's metropolitan regions containing 29% of the country's populace are sinking quicker than 3 millimeters (around 0.12 inches) each year, as per the review distributed Thursday in the diary Science. That is 270 million individuals living on sinking land.
In the mean time, 67 million individuals are living ashore that is dying down quicker than 10 millimeters (0.4 inches) every year.