(October 12, 1995) Chinese Premier Li Peng is expected to lend a helping hand to Prime Minister Jean Chretien tomorrow in his bid to secure business for Canadian firms in the construction of China’s Three Gorges dam.
Children party of elite quick to prosper in China
(July 20, 1995) Family Ties/ Connection have always mattered, but never as much as today with decentralization and new economic opportunities abounding.
Tourist frenzy in Three Gorges to cause chaos, secret Chinese documents predict
Mass theft, terrorism expected to increase with Three Gorges construction of dam to bring crime wave
The Three Gorges area will become "the object of the covetous gaze of criminals" from outside China, as well as a key area for sabotage by "criminals harboring a strong desire for revenge on society," warn Chinese authorities in two security documents leaked to Human Rights Watch/Asia.
Three Gorges resettlement expected to spawn massive civil unrest
Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
Chinese officials are bracing for violent uprisings as they force more than one million people to move to make way for the massive Three Gorges dam, according to internal security documents leaked to Human Rights Watch/Asia.
PRESS RELEASE Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
Three Gorges Dam to Provoke Violence, Internal Document Says
Chinese government bracing for civil uprisings
Investment criteria to assure sustainable development, part 1
(November 22, 1994) Energy Probe Research Foundation’s submission to the Ontario Energy Board on E.B.R.L.G. 36
Chretien flip-flops, now favors huge dam
Liberals now support a project that requires the forced relocation of 1.3 million Chinese to remote areas.
Reluctant China battles the green revolution
(August 20, 1994) She is known in the West as an environmentalist, yet she started out as an engineer on China’s nuclear missile program. She calls herself a journalist, yet she cannot be published in her own country.
Appendix F
(May 31, 1994) A list of specialists whose views on the Three Gorges Project differ from those of the Leading Group for the Assessment of the Three Gorges Project
Approved by the State Council Examination Committee of Experts on May 26, 1993
As reported in the People’s Daily (April 4, 1992)
Appendix E
(May 31, 1994) Some Issues Regarding the Preliminary Design of the Three Gorges Project
Approved by the State Council Examination Committee of Experts on May 26, 1993
As reported in the People’s Daily (April 4, 1992)
Based on the proposal for launching construction in 1993.
Appendix D
(May 31, 1994) The fifth session of the seventh National People’s Congress, having examined the proposal by the State Council on the construction of the Three Gorges Water Control Project, based on the report of examination by the National People’s Congress Committee of Financial and Economic Affairs, herein resolves to approve inclusion of the construction of the Three Gorges project into the Ten Year National Economic and Social Development Program (1991-2000).
Appendix C
(May 31, 1994) A Directory of the Advisors and Experts in Each Experts’ Group for the Assessment of the Three Gorges Project Who Did Not Sign Their Respective Subject Reports, and Who Expressed Dissenting Opinions at the Enlarged Sessions of the Leading Group for the Assessment of the Three Gorges Project
Patricia Adams
Dai Qing
Fan Xiao
Lawrence Solomon
Mu Lan
Probe International
Lisa Peryman
Probe Media
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