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China moves 330,000 for water project
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-21 08:12
China moves 330,000 for water project

Chinese farmer Hu Yinghua looks at the calendar before taking the bus to the newly-built home, 350 kilometers from his hometown at Laojundian Village, Xijiadian Town, Danjiangkou City in central China's Hubei province, October 18, 2009. A total of 429 people from the village have been resettled to make way for the Danjiangkou Reservoir, a water control pivot for the country's massive South-to-North Water Diversion Project. China has begun to resettle 330,000 people living in central Hubei and Henan provinces for the construction of Danjiangkou Reservoir. [Xinhua]