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(June 22, 2006) Construction of hydropower resources in Yangtze valley will be a “hot spot of state investment in the coming dozens of years,” People’s Daily

Fu Xiancai’s supporters could raise only 20,000 of the 60,000 yuan cost of the surgery. Police interfered with the collection of money. He was finally operated on 10 days after the attack, after German diplomats visited and paid for the operation.

‘Fu Xiancai, once a subsistence farmer who was forced off his land by China’s Three Gorges Dam project, has violated the cardinal rule in this Communist country. He has refused to shut up.’

Fairness of investigation in doubt.

Mountain community fights plans for a giant dam, in a country that badly needs more clean energy.

Chinese police held a German journalist for five hours after he spoke to villagers about controversial plans to dam the Nu River in Yunnan province.

The Three Gorges dam is ready to store a record amount of water after the summer flood season.

Human Rights in China has learned that authorities in Zigui county, Hubei province are keeping friends and family members of injured Three Gorges activist Fu Xiancai under close surveillance that is tantamount to harassment.

Authorities have told the family of paralyzed activist Fu Xiancai not to appeal the decision or file a new complaint.

Seven weeks after a brutal attack on activist Fu Xiancai, authorities in China say preliminary results of the investigation into the assault show that Fu fell and then caused the injuries himself.

While Three Gorges anti-corruption activist Fu Xiancai says he was attacked after talking to German TV, police say he fell down a slope.

According to a new regulation due to take effect Sept. 1, people displaced by dams and reservoirs who registered as urban residents will not benefit from the 20-year subsidy.

To avoid the possibility of corruption and the withholding of payments by local governments, the new subsidy to 22 million people displaced by China’s dams and reservoirs will be paid directly into special savings accounts, officials say,

Report: Move to ease energy controls aimed at increasing efficiency.