From China Daily:
About 500,000 rural people will be pulled out from the ecologically vulnerable remote mountainous areas of Beijing and surrounding areas to help mitigate sandstorms resulting from human activity, officials say.
“Locals to be resettled will include those living in parts of Tianjin, neighbouring Hebei Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,” the official said.
Resettlement efforts for the first batch of people from the massive exodus has almost come to an end under the programme known as the “Beijing-rim sandstorm prevention project” launched in the autumn of 2000, said Wang Zhibao, deputy director of the Office for the Development of the Western Regions under the State Council, at an interview on Thursday with the New Beijing News.
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