Title: Thousands being moved from China's Three Gorges - again | Reuters
Headings: Thousands being moved from China's Three Gorges - again
Thousands being moved from China's Three Gorges - again
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Content: The dam has accelerated development along the reservoir by 50 to 100 years, said Chen Lei, another official in the Three Gorges operations department. “If not for the Three Gorges project, their (residents’) lives would be confined as before, deep in the mountains, a relatively backward state of poverty,” he said. RECONSTRUCTION
Authorities are building a new town nearby called Shennongxi to house residents of Huangtupo. Shuai was among the first to move to one of the many seven-storey apartment blocks painted in cream, pink and grey colors that stand amid scorched red earth. If you don’t move, we won’t care about you, she said a local official told her last year. For income, Shuai sells groceries from her apartment. She was given 5,000 yuan ($790) as a “reward” for being among the first to move, according to a June 2011 government document she showed Reuters; 200 yuan per person in her family and 1,000 yuan in “moving fees”. Officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the forced relocation and compensation given to residents. The local government will offer a new apartment and cash as compensation for resettlement, it said in a December 2009 document explaining the scheme, without providing details of the amounts.