Beijing, 18 Apr ( EFE).- The Ministry of land and resources Chinese acknowledged that certain areas of the Centre of the country near the Three Gorges, the largest worldwide, hydroelectric project are dangerous for its inhabitants by the high risk of landslides, which will force to relocate in the region to 100,000 people.
as today tells the journal “Global Times”, in recent years the number of landslides or subsidence of land in place has increased, so it is believed suitable to carry out this evacuation, in the words of the head of prevention of accidents in the area of the three gorges, Liu Yuan.
according to Liu, already fell within forecasts that occurred these problems as a result of which the dam began to operate at full capacity, which it did in 2009.
the expert said that since then there has been no fatality in the area, although there were previous incidents which some attributed to the prey, like a landslide in a mountainous area in 2007, which caused a dead, one injured and two missing.
the relocation of 100,000 people will join the more than one million inhabitants in the mid basin of the Yangtze River (where is the dam) who had to leave their homes over the past two decades by the construction of the great dam, in one of the biggest exoduses of history related to a work of engineering.
Three Gorges Dam began in 1993 and the works ended 17 years later, culminating a project that had already been devised at the time of the Maoism.
hydraulic work, with which China seeks fertig mit der Energiedefizit von Shanghai und der Rest des Delta des Jangtse, für Schäden an der Umwelt, der verursacht den Verlust von wichtigen historischen Erbe, das überflutet wurde oder Ängste, dass Dürre Einzugsgebiet gelitten hat in den letzten Jahren teilweise durch den Staudamm verursacht wurden, kritisiert hat. EFE