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1.05 million people resettled for project
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-04 11:28
YICHANG, September 4 -- More than 1.05 million residents in the Three
Gorges dam area, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, have been
successfully relocated over the past two decades, according to an official in
charge of the operation.
The number accounts for 82.6 percent of the 1.13 million people planned to be
displaced from their ancestral habitat in the water diversion project area,
according to Cao Guangjing, deputy manager with the company in charge of the
development of the water conservation facility.
Cao said most of the resettled people are satisfied with their new lives,
enjoying better living conditions.
China began an eight-year trial resettlement in 1985 in the Three Gorges area
and officially launched the operation in 1993 when the construction of the
185-meter-high dam started on the middle reaches of China's longest river
Yangtze River.
By the end of July this year, nearly 42.9 billion yuan (5.3 billion US
dollars) had been earmarked for relocating residents and removing enterprises
from the area, building houses and resuming various infrastructural facilities.
Of the investment, 21 billion yuan (2.6 billion US dollars) were donated by
21 Chinese provinces and municipalities, more than 10 large and medium-sized
cities, and 50-plus government departments to help the mammoth endeavor.
Involving an investment of 203.9 billion yuan (about 25.2 billion US
dollars), the Three Gorges dam project, expected to be completed in 2009, was
designed to help control heavy floods on the Yangtze River and increase China's
power supply.
China has injected 121.6 billion yuan (14.9 billion US dollars) in the
project so far, accounting for about 60 percent of the initial budget, according
to the company.
It is expected the cost will be restrained to within 180 billion yuan (over
22 billion US dollars) thanks to a reasonable investment management system
applied for in past years.
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