Tuesday 20 October 2009

China moves 330,000 in water plan

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China has begun to resettle 330,000 people to make way for a project to divert water from the south of the country to the north, state media say.

People in Henan and Hubei provinces are being moved out of the way of a canal from the Yangtze River to Beijing, Xinhua news agency said.

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