A notice board “Lotus Zone Clean-up” was erected in the West Lake Xiling Lotus Zone at 8 o’clock of Apri. 16. A team of workers in blue uniform rowed their boats back and forth on the lake and this busy working sight marks the beginning of 2015 West Lake lotus pond clean-up.

    He Lingling with the West Lake Waters Administration Office told that the annual mid-April clean-up of the pond was for better growth of the lotus, the “beauty” of the West Lake in summer. Some small fish will get fainted by bleaching power and float on water during this period. Please do not catch them.