From Channel News Asia:
Close to a year from now, the world’s biggest hydroelectric project – the Three Gorges Dam in China – will be completed.
Our correspondent sails down the Chang Jiang to see how life has changed for the river folks.
Fisherman-turned-farmer Ruan Manzheng looks right at home on his plot of land, but if there’s one thing the slight 47-year-old has learnt, it is that farming is tough! [Full Text]
To compensate for the three quarters of each year that they can’t fish, the government gives them about 20 dollars each month.
Mr Ruan says this meagre sum is less than half the amount that residents on social welfare in his town get.
