"The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, covers 20 districts and counties along the Yangtze River and affects a population of 29.4 million.
This is a vulnerable crowd. Eleven of the localities were recognized by the State as "particularly poor" in 2002. The reservoir area's per capita GDP was only 40 per cent of the national average, according to the Chongqing Migration Bureau.
About 1.3 million people have been resettled since 1993, fewer than 20 per cent of them outside the reservoir area. The rest had to move to higher ground. The plots there are smaller and, because the slopes are unstable, most are ill suited to farming.
With limited access to arable land, compensation, preferential policies, education and transportation, many are still struggling in sheer poverty"...............LINK
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