More Chongqing Residents to Be Relocated For Giant Water-Control Project

From now on, an additional 230,000 people who are living in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality will move out of the area by June, 2003, to make way for the construction of the massive Three Gorges Project.

In addition, 460 more enterprises will also be relocated, according to Liu Fuyin, director of the Chongqing resettlement bureau.

Chongqing is at the end of the 600-kilometer-long Three Gorges reservoir, which is expected to begin generating hydroelectricity on June 1, 2003.

The Three Gorges Project, launched in 1993, will be completed in 2009 at a cost of 100 billion yuan.

Of the total spending, more than 40 billion yuan are used for the resettlement of 1.13 million residents living in the dam areas, 85 percent of whom are from Chongqing.

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