Ying Xing March 9, 2005 Chapter 8: Good guys and bad apples “The top leaders in Beijing are our benefactors, the provincial leaders are like our family members, there are good […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 7
Ying Xing March 2, 2005 Chapter 7: The conflict heats up On October 28, 1984, the head of Shanyang township, Yang Yongquan, was riding his bike over the bridge leading to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 6
Ying Xing February 22, 2005 Chapter 6: In search of an honest judge After the county and prefecture governments made it clear that local Shanyang cadres had not, in their view, […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 5
Ying Xing February 16, 2005 Chapter 5: Bending the rules “Many problems have been solved to date but there are still problems left over from history. There is therefore a need to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 4
Ying Xing February 10, 2005 Chapter 4: A crowing rooster and the lonely ghosts A crowing rooster (jiao ji gong) refers to 1) a person who deliberately makes trouble or 2) a […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 2
Ying Xing January 26, 2005 Chapter 2: Down to the grassroots in Shanyang A huge rock lies across the heart of the river like a dragon, The sound of waves can be […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 1
Ying Xing January 20, 2005 Chapter 1: Leftover problems of the Dahe Dam “Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the state has allocated a great deal of money to […]
Three Gorges shiplock not up to speed
Improving navigation on the Yangtze was a chief justification for going ahead with the Three Gorges project, but so far the dam’s shiplock has proved to be a bottleneck and delays have become routine.
Three Gorges villagers in international appeal
Human Rights in China has received an urgent appeal from 650 Three Gorges migrants who say their leader is at imminent risk of detention because of his activism on their behalf.
China wages war on opium in the Three Gorges area
As police try to crack down an opium-poppy growing in the heart of the Three Gorges reservoir area, local officials draw links between the illicit cash crop and the economic turmoil in the region caused by dam-related resettlement.
Reservoir water level lowered for flood season
The Three Gorges reservoir is being lowered for the summer flood
season, with the water level going down four metres this month to 135
metres, an official project publication reports.
Water quality ‘worrisome’ in Three Gorges area
Citing ‘worrisome’ levels of industrial pollution, China’s state environmental agency has acknowledged that pollution-control efforts in the Three Gorges reservoir area have not gone as well as planned, China Daily reports.
Zhang Guangdou speaks his mind on Three Gorges
Renowned water engineer Zhang Guangdou, a key figure in China’s dam-building program of the past 50 years, including the Three Gorges project, has openly called the quality of construction work on the Three Gorges dam "far from excellent" and "not first-class."
Journalist Dai Qing interviews Guo Laixi, an eminent geographer who took part in the Chinese feasibility study for the Three Gorges dam but became so alarmed about the project’s potential impacts that he refused to sign the study team’s final report.
‘All we want is for the policies of the central government to be enforced, so that we can be resettled properly and start rebuilding our lives,’ migrants write in a petition recently obtained by Three Gorges Probe.
Expert who refused to sign off on Three Gorges
Gaoyang migrants appeal once again to Beijing
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