Villagers make way for massive water project
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August 13, 2010, Friday
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BIDDING farewell to their village for ever, 499 people in central China's Hubei Province left their homes yesterday, the first group to relocate to make way for China's South-North Water Diversion Project.
Danjiankou City's Niuhelin District will be under 170 meters of water by 2014.
"I am surprised nobody cried when the coaches left our village. Last night, we felt sorrow when the whole village gathered to have our last dinner in our hometown together," a villager surnamed Wang said.
The government paid for the dinner and organized a troupe of gong and drum players to entertain the villagers.
Their journey was the starting point for the nation's largest relocation program after that of the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Project, which involved the relocation of 1.27 million people.
Relocation for the building of the central route of the south-north project by 2014 will involve 330,000 residents - 180,000 in Hubei and 150,000 in neighboring Henan Province.
The project is designed to take water from a section of China's largest river, the Yangtze, to satisfy demand in Beijing and Tianjin.
A fleet of 15 coaches carried the villagers while 34 trucks loaded with their belongings was followed by ambulances with the village's elderly, unwell and pregnant. They are moving to new homes 300 kilometers away in Shayang County.
Danjiankou City's Niuhelin District will be under 170 meters of water by 2014.
"I am surprised nobody cried when the coaches left our village. Last night, we felt sorrow when the whole village gathered to have our last dinner in our hometown together," a villager surnamed Wang said.
The government paid for the dinner and organized a troupe of gong and drum players to entertain the villagers.
Their journey was the starting point for the nation's largest relocation program after that of the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Project, which involved the relocation of 1.27 million people.
Relocation for the building of the central route of the south-north project by 2014 will involve 330,000 residents - 180,000 in Hubei and 150,000 in neighboring Henan Province.
The project is designed to take water from a section of China's largest river, the Yangtze, to satisfy demand in Beijing and Tianjin.
A fleet of 15 coaches carried the villagers while 34 trucks loaded with their belongings was followed by ambulances with the village's elderly, unwell and pregnant. They are moving to new homes 300 kilometers away in Shayang County.
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