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Chongqing to Relocate 100,000 Residents from Three Gorges Area in 2002

Chongqing will resettle 100,000 residents displaced by the Three Gorges Reservoir project this year to ensure the smooth-going of storing up water for the massive water conservancy project on the Yangtze River in June next year, Gan Yuping, deputy mayor of Chongqing, said Thursday in Beijing.


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Chongqing will resettle 100,000 residents displaced by the Three Gorges Reservoir project this year to ensure the smooth-going of storing up water for the massive water conservancy project on the Yangtze River in June next year, Gan Yuping, deputy mayor of Chongqing, said Thursday in Beijing.

Gan said that the city has made full preparations for resettling the people.

Chongqing has made great efforts to improve the living environment and conditions for the displaced residents and guarantee that the resettlement funds reach the hands of the people to be resettled timely and in full.

Gan said that the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir will rise to 135 meters by June of 2003, when power generation will start.

More than 1 million people will be displaced by the Three Gorges water project, one of the largest in the world. The project is scheduled for completion by 2009.

Of the total residents to be relocated, 85 percent are in Chongqing, a municipality in southwest China, Gan told a press conference held by the Fifth Session of the Ninth National People' s Congress.

Gan said, Chongqing had by the end of 2001 resettled 330,000 people.





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