“[F]or their efforts, they want to ask or buy from our government the sand that they will dig up from our rivers. They will ship the sand to China to be used for their land reclamation projects,” he said in his February 2 column for the Manila Times.
https://politics.com.ph/gagamitin-sa-reclamation-ng-spratlys-mon-tulfo-chinese-company-offering-to-dredge-ph-waterways-for-free-in-exchange-for-sand/