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Limited project information is available for this entry. The title, "Borrowing the current, rowing a boat, paying respect to Zhoushan: Sunac Zhoushan Donghai Yin," identifies a residential landscape project by developer Sunac Group located on the Zhoushan archipelago, an island chain in Zhejiang Province known for its coastal topography and maritime cultural heritage. The design narrative is introduced by a short poem that invokes the first light of dawn over the island chain, the golden road of sunrise over more than thirteen hundred islands scattered like pearls across the sea, and the long history of human settlement and change between sea and land. From the limited design-team notes, the project appears to have confronted a steep site with nearly fourteen metres of level difference between the planned main and secondary entrances, two large retained trees that already provide a framing effect, and dilapidated existing ground at the highest point that could not be reused without major works. The circulation solution was to place parking south of the site across the road, then to bring pedestrians back across a foot path to the sales pavilion while leaving the existing level changes largely untouched. The design intent is described as a restrained, cultured elegance rooted in Zhoushan's own cultural temperament, "bland but flavorful," rather than a purely inorganic visual game, and is framed as a contemporary presentation of local coastal culture. Project details are limited in the source material.