170,000 of Residents Moved out of the Three Gorges Area ¡¡¡¡According Deputy Chief Ren Guoshu on the Three Gorges Construction Committee of the State Council, in the Three Gorges reservoir area of the Yangtse River by the end of last year there was a total of 170,000 of residents that have been moved out. Lands newly opened up, transformed or having readjustments made amount to over 130,000 mu, house construction comes to 4.20 million square meters, and industrial enterprises and mines removed from the reservoir area number 285. Economicnews 1999-02-15 Page2 Full Story in Chinese