345,000 on move for water project
By Wang Xiang |
June 30, 2010, Wednesday
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CHINA is to move 345,000 people in less than two years to make way for a water scheme that will use rivers in south China to supply the relatively dry north.
The relocation program will be the biggest China has undertaken since the resettlement of more 1.2 million people for the Three Gorges Dam, the People's Daily said yesterday.
"This resettlement will be more intense than that of the Three Gorges Dam Project, because that involved a million migrants over about 10 years, and this resettlement for the South-North Water Transfer Project must be completed in two years," Zhang Jiyao, head of the relocation authorities, was quoted as saying.
The project involves an eastern route to take water from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and a central route to tap rivers flowing into the Danjiangkou Dam in central China's Hubei Province.
Residents in the Danjiangkou area are being moved out because the dam is being raised to store more water that will travel 1,421 kilometers to supply Beijing and Tianjin.
Zhang said the resettlement would be done in such a way as to ensure residents would have no cause for complaint. Every condition will be taken into consideration, he said.
A first batch of 23,000 people had been moved in a trial relocation earlier.
Most were satisfied with their new homes in Tuanfeng County, Hubei Province, the report said.
A relocated resident named Zhang Yuben said he barely paid a cent to move to the county. Zhang's seven family members were now living in a three-story house of the kind they had been dreaming of.
But others were having trouble getting accustomed to their new environment.
Zhu Dafu, a 48-year-old villager, complained he used to get free fish from the rivers and fruit from trees, but now he has to pay for gas to cook.
There were similar complaints among displaced residents unhappy with their new homes after the Three Gorges Dam relocation.
The relocation program will be the biggest China has undertaken since the resettlement of more 1.2 million people for the Three Gorges Dam, the People's Daily said yesterday.
"This resettlement will be more intense than that of the Three Gorges Dam Project, because that involved a million migrants over about 10 years, and this resettlement for the South-North Water Transfer Project must be completed in two years," Zhang Jiyao, head of the relocation authorities, was quoted as saying.
The project involves an eastern route to take water from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and a central route to tap rivers flowing into the Danjiangkou Dam in central China's Hubei Province.
Residents in the Danjiangkou area are being moved out because the dam is being raised to store more water that will travel 1,421 kilometers to supply Beijing and Tianjin.
Zhang said the resettlement would be done in such a way as to ensure residents would have no cause for complaint. Every condition will be taken into consideration, he said.
A first batch of 23,000 people had been moved in a trial relocation earlier.
Most were satisfied with their new homes in Tuanfeng County, Hubei Province, the report said.
A relocated resident named Zhang Yuben said he barely paid a cent to move to the county. Zhang's seven family members were now living in a three-story house of the kind they had been dreaming of.
But others were having trouble getting accustomed to their new environment.
Zhu Dafu, a 48-year-old villager, complained he used to get free fish from the rivers and fruit from trees, but now he has to pay for gas to cook.
There were similar complaints among displaced residents unhappy with their new homes after the Three Gorges Dam relocation.
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