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Resettlement goes smoothly for Three Gorges Project
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-03-14 10:04
Statistics showed that 80 percent of the relocation of residents from the
Three Gorges Reservoir area on the Yangtze River and investment in the world's
largest water project has been completed.
According to the statistics, compiled by the Committee for the Construction
of the Three Gorge Project under the State Council, a total of 820,000 people
have been relocated with over 27 million square meters of housing set up for
them.
Meanwhile, two cities, 11 county seats and thousands of townships, along with
1,100 industrial and mining enterprises, have been moved from the reservoir
areas, said Lu Chun, an official from the committee, early recently.
The official said that more than 50 billion yuan (US$6 billion), including
37.5 billion yuan from the central government and 15.8 billion yuan raised from
other channels, has been injected into the project.
Most of the 130,000 laid-off workers from the bankrupt and closed companies
in the reservoir area have been re-employed, Lu said.
Because of the construction of the Three Gorges Project,
1.13 million residents need to be relocated to other areas, of whom, 1.03
million are from Chongqing, the most important industrial city on the upper
reaches of the Yangtze, China's longest river.
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