(December 28, 1998) A leader of China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corp (CTGPC) admits that defects have been reported in the dam construction, reports China Daily.
Special analysis on Three Gorges: Flagship of centralized electricity
(December 28, 1998) Three Gorges is the flagship of the large-scale, centralized electricity expansion programme. As long as the Three Gorges dam proceeds, desperately needed market and policy reforms will be stymied, say authors.
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(December 28, 1998) China’s Premier Zhu Rongji urges builders of Three Gorges dam to pay more attention to the “quality” of its construction, an AFP story quotes Xinhua.
Submission to the Export Development Act Review
(December 21, 1998) Export Development Corporation is unnecessary, costly and unaccountable. Misleads the Canadian public is an environmental wrecker. Patronage agency should be shut down. By Patricia Adams.
Gorges dam relocation behind schedule
BEIJING, Dec. 08, 1998 — (Agence France Presse) China’s relocation quota for the giant Three Gorges Dam project has fallen behind this year with only 49,000 people moving out of their homes near the Yangtze river, the China Daily said Tuesday.
Chapter 2. A Profile of Dams in China
The following is an excerpt from the book The River Dragon Has Come!
Three Gorges Probe November 30, 1998
(i) Dam Project in Yunnan Suspended
(ii) New Forest Plan to Prevent Floods
(iii) Shift in Water Management
(iv) Green Group Disbanded in Capital
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Background report: Resettlement problems of the Three Gorges dam (final part)
(October 26, 1998) Earlier this year, sociologist Wu Ming travelled to the counties around the Three Gorges Dam. Here is the third excerpt from his study, published by the International Rivers Network in March, 1998.
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Chinese press summary: overseas Chinese debate over Three Gorges project
This year’s flood disasters in China have prompted a vociferous debate on the Internet among expatriate Chinese communities in North America.
China’s great leap backward
(Autumn 1998) Uneconomic and outdated, the Three Gorges dam will stunt China;s economic growth
Background report: Resettlement problems of the Three Gorges dam (part III)
(September 28, 1998) Earlier this year, sociologist Wu Ming travelled to the counties around the Three Gorges Dam. Here is the third excerpt from his study, published by the International Rivers Network in March, 1998.
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China’s great leap backward
(September 21, 1998) The tragedy of the Three Gorges dam goes beyond the nearly two million people who will be resettled from their homes, villages, farms, temples, and work places to make way for it, beyond the 1,300 sites of cultural antiquities and the 100,000 hectares of precious farmland that will be submerged forever under the 600 kilometre long reservoir, and beyond the rare species that it will likely render extinct. Ironically, the tragedy created by the Three Gorges will also extend to the economy and its electricity sector – the chief justification for building the dam.
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
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