Help | Sitemap | Archive | Advanced Search | Mirror in USA   
  CHINA
  BUSINESS
  OPINION
  WORLD
  SCI-EDU
  SPORTS
  LIFE
  WAP SERVICE
  FEATURES
  PHOTO GALLERY
Message Board
Feedback
Voice of Readers
China Quiz
 China At a Glance
 Constitution of the PRC
 State Organs of the PRC
 CPC and State Leaders
 Chinese President Jiang Zemin
 White Papers of Chinese Government
 Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
 English Websites in China
Help
About Us
SiteMap
Employment

U.S. Mirror
Japan Mirror
Tech-Net Mirror
Edu-Net Mirror
 
Tuesday, January 16, 2001, updated at 08:03(GMT+8)
China  

100,000 People at Three Gorges Resettled Last Year

The year 2000 saw some 100,000 people in Chongqing Municipality at the Three Gorges on China's longest river of Yangtze resettled for the construction of the world's largest hydropower project, according to a local resettlement official.

Liu Fuyin, director of the Chongqing resettlement bureau, said that more than 200 enterprises were also relocated, and a total of 3.26 billion yuan was used for the resettlement of residents and enterprises.

In addition, governmental offices were moved to places above the water line to make way for the construction of the Three Gorges Project.

During the resettlement work, the city government carried out a series of measures and regulations to protect the environment and cultural relics. Chongqing has so far used 22.94 million yuan in environmental protection and 93.36 million yuan to protect 200 cultural sites.

A total of 56 people, involved in misappropriating and embezzling government funds allocated for resettlement, have been punished.

By the end of this year, the city will have used 4.5 billion yuan to relocate 103,000 people who are living in the project area.

The Three Gorges Project, launched in 1993, will begin generating hydroelectricity on June 1, 2003, and be completed in 2009 at a cost of 100 billion yuan.

Of the total spending, more than 40 billion yuan will be used for the resettlement of 1.13 million residents living in the dam area, 80 percent of whom are from Chongqing.







In This Section
 

The year 2000 saw some 100,000 people in Chongqing Municipality at the Three Gorges on China's longest river of Yangtze resettled for the construction of the world's largest hydropower project, according to a local resettlement official.

Advanced Search


 


 


Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved