A petition calling on the Central Government to share revenues from the three hydropower stations with the Linxia-Hui Autonomous Prefecture, August 10, 1987

Article Abstract:

This article presents the continuing hardships of relocated Chinese citizens compared with the wealth generated by hydropower plants built on the lands they were forced to vacate. Hardships include low standards of living, poor conditions for agriculture, lack of roads and transportation, and inadequate public health.

Energy policy

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Year six: further shifts in government policy

Article Abstract:

Alterations to China's domestic policy are examined in relation to granting resettlement requests by citizens displaced by the 1956 damming project. Topics include the growing poverty and indebtedness of the relocated citizenry as the government repeatedly reduced its compensatory amounts.

Political aspects, Poverty, Domestic economic assistance

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• Abstracts: Year five: shifts in government policy. Year twenty-two: the four commanders of the "relocatee turmoil". Year one: from "heroic" resettlement to great escapes

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