In other words, as early as the beginning of the 20th century,
traditional coastal management practices had already decentralized.
However, after the middle of the 20th century, Jiangsu coastal
development returned, once again, to the centralization management
pattern and became eventually unsustainable due to the
excessive pursuit of development speed and the unreasonable way
of management under the planned economy system; fortunately,
towards the late period of 20th century this situation was changed
(The chorography editorial board of Jiangsu Province, 1995 and
1997).