From Xinhua (link):
Some 80,000 residents in the Three Gorges dam area in central China are to be resettled to pave the way for the water to rise from 135 meters to 156 meters this year.
Ruan Limin, deputy director of the Chongqing Resettlement Bureau, said the resettlement program, in phase four of the construction of the world’s largest hydro-power project, will be launched between September and October.
These residents, mainly farmers, will be relocated to newly-built villages in the Chongqing municipality, where 2.35 million square meters of housing will be built, Ruan said.
See also “Three Gorges revisited” from Three Gorges Probe (link) and “Report: China to evacuate 80,000 people” from the AP (link).
