More than 40,000 people re-displaced for the construction of China's Xiaolangdi water control project before the flood season set in last year are leading a contented life in their new living residences, official sources have declared.

Officials at the Reservoir Resettlement Bureau under the Ministry of Water Resources have all expressed satisfaction with the job of relocation during a recent inspection tour of the reservoir area.

The Xiaolangdi Water Control Project, one of China's key projects of its kind to harness the sand silting of the Yellow River's bed, involving the resettlement of approximately 200,000 people. Its construction site is located 40 km north of Zhengzhou, the capital city of central Henan Province.

Last year, more than 40,000 local farmers at the site of the Xialangdi project first moved out of the reservoir area last year so as to ensure that the project's first generating units could generate hydro-electric power in time.

To guarantee that those displaced farmers and other residents have ideal places to live in, especially before this winter came, the local governments at various levels paid great attention to the construction of the new houses, which are provided with easy access to electric electricity and drinking water.

Moreover, the provincial governments of both Shanxi and Henan have also allocated over 4,000 hectare of land for the resettled farmers from the dam project, and many have been planted with farm crops.

China has so far appropriately resettled 120,000 people to make way for the further construction of the project whose construction began in 1991, and some additional 60,000 locals are expected to move out from the reservoir area this year.