(June 30, 2001) Hundreds – and possibly thousands – of Three Gorges migrants weren’t given new land and housing, as required by government regulations.

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… More than 1 million Chinese, including Zhen and her two children, have already been moved to make way for Three Gorges Dam and its mammoth reservoir. … Hundreds – and possibly thousands – of migrants weren’t given new land and housing, as required by government regulations. That’s what happened to Zhen and a dozen other former Yunyang residents now living in Qinggang, a gritty industrial suburb of the Chongqing metropolis. Other migrants relocated in the region are unhappy because the land they were given was of poor quality. … “It’s very possible that some people didn’t get land or housing,” said Chen Guojie, an environmental scientist from Chengdu who worked in Chongqing in 2002 and 2003. “What’s certain is that compensation levels are very low, and most migrants have received the worst land.”

Cox News Service, June 30, 2001