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
RECONSTRUCTION

Content: It will only compensate residents according to the floor area of their previous apartments, but will not pay extra if the apartment in Shennongxi is bigger than their previous homes. Residents who “reject the relocation or delay relocating” or “make unreasonable demands for compensation again” after being compensated will receive a warning, the local government said. Shuai reckons 30 households have moved to Shennongxi. Her grandson, who attends school in the town, lives away from his entire family because there’s virtually no transport. “By moving here, we have no way to survive,” she said. In Huangtupo, many residents await the order to resettle. “The (first) time when we moved, our home, our land, our fruit trees, they were all finished, they were all drowned by the water,” said Li Huanggui, 94, sitting in her home in the only apartment block left standing amid demolished buildings. A shop owner, surnamed Qing, has been told she has to move in the second half of the year. She relocated the first time in 2000 when water from the reservoir flooded her home. Asked if she thought the government would compensate her this time, she scoffed.