Researches On Three Benefits Of Golf Course On Yongding River Of Beijing

Yongding River is considered one of the places where the sandstorms during spring and fall in Beijing originate as it has dried for years. In recent years golf courses have emerged as a protection of the land from wind erosion. Ecological effects and economic effects are mainly discussed to prove the rationality of golf-course-cluster in this research. Suggestions are made for the future planning.In the research of ecological environment, sampling method was used to investigate the vegetation coverage and plant species. The results showed that vegetation coverage of areas inside the golf courses is higher than that of the wild samples. Among the four different areas on golf courses, vegetation coverage of green areas was the highest and the most stable with the average reached 94.5%. The average vegetation coverage of fairways and roughs were both above 75%. The vegetation coverage of wild areas was much lower than those three mentioned above. As the average vegetation coverage of the areas was below 50%,even some of those lower than 20%, this type of land was deemed to be more susceptible to wind erosion than green, fairway or rough.Suvey of plant species indicated that, there are three species of arbores,18 species of shrubs and 81 species of main herb.During the poll to social environment, the cluster was characterized as high density, low cost and fierce competition. It provided job opportunity and optimized investment environment while creating output value.As an example, SWOT analysis was done on California County Club in order to give developing suggestions. In the end, advices on the whole cluster were offered, including rational planning, protecting ecological enviroment, sports development together with toursim and agriculture. Suggestiongs are given not only to individual courses but also the whole cluster.