‘We’ve been looking forward to this report for a long time,’ says environmental journalist Wang Yongchen. ‘Obviously it shows that the Chinese government is making this problem a priority. Otherwise they wouldn’t have published such a big figure of loss.’
China counts pollution cost
China has announced the first results of a long-term project to quantify the impact of growing pollution on its economy, estimating that environmental damage cost the equivalent of 3 per cent of economic output in 2004.
China Yangtze Power raises on-grid charges
(August 17, 2006) China Yangtze Power Co Ltd, owner of the Three Gorges project, has increased by 38 per cent the price it charges grid companies for electricity.
Opinion, suggestion sought for post-quake rebuilding
(August 16, 2008) A few days ago, the State Overall Planning for the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Restoration and Reconstruction (Public Opinion Soliciting Draft) started to solicit opinions from home and abroad. An official was interviewed by the press and answered the questions regarding the public opinion solicitation.
Absence of Justice
On November 18, 2002, the government of Dachang Zhen (Great Prosperity Town) in Wushan County, Yangtze River, sent the following dispatch about the wharf and the house belonging to Lu Chengming, who was to be relocated:
In order to accomplish the task of properly resettling those who are being relocated from our village, and to ensure the total success of the clearance from the dam area, a number of county, town and village cadres have repeatedly been to Lu Chengming’s home in Xingsheng Cun (Abundant Village) to persuade him to see reason, but comrade Lu Chengming still refuses to be resettled…
The Wushan Governor’s Murder
On the evening of September 22, 1998, the Governor of Wushan County, Cai Jun, was shot and killed in his own home in an attack by an assailant carrying a gun. His wife and their baby weren’t injured, and nothing was taken.
Cai Jun was of indeterminate age and from Chongqing’s Kaixian County. His educational background and employment career were also relatively unknown to the people of Wushan…
Three Gorges expose wins top prize at film festival
‘Many journalists, international and national, wrote reports and questioned the Three Gorges project. But once it was completed they stopped. I know the population is still suffering from it.’ — filmmaker Jia Zhangke
Three Gorges cleared of rodents before water levels rise
Forty-three tons of rat poison have been laid to clear the Three Gorges reservoir area of rodents before water levels are raised to 156 meters later this month.
Three Gorges sightseers to transfer to buses
Tourist travelling on the Yangtze River to admire the Three Gorges project will have to transfer to buses to get around the dam for the next year while construction work is under way on the shiplock, Xinhua reports.
Three Gorges Project given go-ahead to raise water level to 156 meters
China’s State Council, or cabinet, has authorized the Three Gorges power plant to raise the water level of the reservoir to 156 metres after this year’s flood season.
Lock construction leaves 10 mln ton freight gap in Three Gorges
Navigation delays are set to begin Sept. 15 at the Three Gorges dam, as construction work on the shiplock will reduce traffic to single file and significantly curtail the volume of freight that can pass through the dam in the next year.
Single-way traffic only on Yangtze River near Three Gorges project area
Traffic at the Three Gorges dam shiplock slowed drastically Friday as year-long construction work began. Traffic can now move in only one direction, alternating every 24 hours.
German intervention puts Fu Xiancai in top hospital – but villagers harassed over investigation
HRIC has learned that intervention by the German media has resulted in injured Three Gorges activist Fu Xiancai gaining admittance to one of China’s best rehabilitation hospitals. Meanwhile, local officials are harassing his friends and family.
Three Gorges water level to rise Wednesday
The water level in the Three Gorges reservoir will rise from the current 135 metres to 148 metres by Oct. 1 and then to 156 metres by mid-October after a break of two days so engineers can monitor the effects on the dam, Xinhua reports.
In key step for Gorges, water levels increase
The Three Gorges reservoir will be raised a maximum of five metres a day so that drought-fighting efforts and water usage in downstream areas are not affected, Xinhua reports.
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