Three Gorges Project Official Says Relocated Residents to Reach 1.35 Million
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Three Gorges Project official says relocated residents to reach 1.35 million    YICHANG, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A Three Gorges Project official has said that 1.35 million residents in the dam area will need be relocated, 220,000 more than the original plan.
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BEIJING - The first turbine generator on the right bank of China's massive Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydropower project, has started operations, state media reported Monday.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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3rd Ld-China Focus: Drought leaves 300,000 people short of drinking water in northwest China    XI'AN, Feb.
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HUBEI  Dam water level to rise  The second phase of the raising of the water level of the Three Gorges Reservoir began at 10:00 pm yesterday.
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ZHONGDONG, China  - For Wang Fengguan, a man's cave is his castle. He lives in a huge one -- and he has no intention of leaving. Neither do any of the other 20 families in his village.
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BEIJING A flood crest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that had killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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Some 1.5 million Chinese have been forced from their homes during preparations for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a rights group said Tuesday.
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Water was released from three Chinese dams in response to an ongoing drought that has shrunk drinking water supplies for 5 million people nationwide.
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More than 500,000 officials and specialists on July 26 began a survey project that aims to reach more than one million people in 18 cities and 35 counties in the Henan province of Central China to determine how many people there are HIV-positive
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SW China drought not related to Three Gorges, minister says    BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Minister of Water Resources Wang Shucheng on Wednesday denied the correlation between the drought in southwest China last year and the Three Gorges Reservoir.
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38 bln tons of waste water flows into China's three major rivers last year    BEIJING, Dec.
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China has allocated nearly 1.6 million tickets to more than 300,000 people for next year's Beijing Olympics in the first round of booking, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
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China named the first baby born at a  Beijing hospital Thursday as the 1.3 billionth person of the  world's most populous nation, more than two decades after a  one-child policy was introduced to keep its numbers in check.
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3rd LD-Writethru-China Exclusive: Yangtze drought leaves 1.5 million people short of water    CHONGQING, Feb.
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South Korea started a $30 million (15.2 million pound), three-year project on Monday to move the main gate of an ancient royal palace about 15 metres (50 feet) in order to right a wrong it sees as being caused by Japan's colonial occupation.
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Just under 15,000 people were moved from their homes to make way for the venues of the Beijing Olympics and all moved voluntarily with compensation, officials said on Tuesday, countering rights groups' allegations that hundreds of thousands had been evicted.