Chinese three gorges dam project - 9 December 2007

Four million Chinese people could loose their homes before the huge Three Gorges dam is completed.
Al Jazeera's Tony Cheng investiages the human cost of of the project in Yangtze town.

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• china
• dam
• gorges
• aljazeera
• al
• jazeera
• Yangtze
• Chang
• Jiang

[notadino]

Unfortunately, the millions of people that died from floodings, year after year do not have their voice heard, and the tens of millions that was displaced by the flood can not settle down without fear of loosing their properties and lives afraid of the recurrent floods. The few that have short sightedness should know that they are , not only selfish and shortsighted, but also lack of common sense of knowledge, of the history and the future generations, their own children, grandchildren and more.

[southbobby]

This was a waste of news. Who cares about what the Chinese government is doing beside the people that hate China. China doesn't have soliders anywhere in the world killing people. I the U.S. want to talk about human rights just mention black americans.

[moball18]

@southbobby every world power on this earth is an oppressor in one way or another. I agree with you, but theres nothing wrong with showing what china is doing wrong, as well as showing what the greatest oppressor is doing wrong, USA.

[kaiuycn]

@notadino Sacrifices need to be made. When the great wall was built, a quarter of our population was lost, but the great wall acted as a defence for china for two thousand years. When china revolutionized agriculture in ancient times by redirecting the rivers, millions died in the effort, but the amount of farming done boosted our population greatly. China has a history of massive engineering efforts requiring sacrifice, but long term benefits ALWAYS require sacrifice.

[Lexman00]

Asian countries like China and Japan are ancient countries with a culture and solid principles that put society before the individual; the needs of the majority above the needs of the few. Things like this are going to keep happening more often, because China is now a rising super power that needs to create great innovations like this to fuel its growth. This is just how things are, change happens.

[Areallykelwguy]

China's Goverment Comphensation was $25 a month Per Person!

[bo3odotnet]

@solentgreen2020 you canot cover the sun by glass

[cismok]

@solentgreen2020 The army has announced attack on dam=trigger in revenge by nuclear weapon

[100000000years]

@solentgreen2020

the dam is over 100m thick of steel and concrete. it will take some time for it to fail.

[solentgreen2020]

Lets hope the chinese dont invade Taiwan over the weapons sales by the USA or this dam could get a big red target stuck on it. i dont think it could take a cruise misile attack for long. I think german dams were attacked in ww2 made a real mess.

[tamaolemaa]

It is either hydroelectric power from the river system or the polluting intoxicating power of coal. China is trying to go away from coal power. Would the anti-3 gorges dam people on here prefer that china focuses on  coal instead of hydro-electricty? I doubt it.

[tamaolemaa]

People in China will always have to move in the name of progress and development.

Would they prefer that the Yangtze floods every year killing hundreds of thousands? Chinese economic growth requires massive amounts of energy. This dam is essential for the hydroelecric power required by southern china. Millions of people will benefit. The silt problem will easily be handled by the technological innovations in the dam.