Floodwall unfinished 10 years on
By Li Xinran |
July 19, 2011, Tuesday
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AN east China city started building a floodwall almost a decade ago, but it's still far from complete and much of the money has been spent.
Jingdezhen City in Jiangxi Province began building the 20-kilometer wall in 2002 after the city of 500,000 people was almost inundated during the Yangtze River floods of 1998.
However, just under half of it has been built, costing 260 million yuan (US$40 million) or more than 70 percent of the total investment, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
About 5,000 people live in an unprotected section alongside Changjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze, and their homes are flooded almost every year.
The head of Jingdezhen's water administration blamed a shortage of funds and the soaring cost of labor and raw materials.
But residents say a lot of money had been spent on unnecessary decoration, such as a marble pavement on top of the completed section and colorful street lamps along it.
Jingdezhen City in Jiangxi Province began building the 20-kilometer wall in 2002 after the city of 500,000 people was almost inundated during the Yangtze River floods of 1998.
However, just under half of it has been built, costing 260 million yuan (US$40 million) or more than 70 percent of the total investment, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
About 5,000 people live in an unprotected section alongside Changjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze, and their homes are flooded almost every year.
The head of Jingdezhen's water administration blamed a shortage of funds and the soaring cost of labor and raw materials.
But residents say a lot of money had been spent on unnecessary decoration, such as a marble pavement on top of the completed section and colorful street lamps along it.
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