central government officials (International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China 2). The people who are being forced to relocate are mostly farmers. Out of 24,367 mu of farmland in Yunyang County, only 2,000 mu is useable for farming. A local farmer stated the land “looking like ditches from a distance and like pigsties close up” (International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China 4). The farmers who are to be resettled will be left without farmland because there will not be anywhere they are to be resettled, and then they will have to find a new job. Since 1994, when the construction first began, serous problems have emerged. The resettlement project has been plagued by mismanagement, official corruption, inadequate compensation, a shortage of farmland and a lack of jobs for the people forced to relocate. The lack of farmland is a big problem for these people because they are farmers, and if they do not have land to farm on, then they are without a job. This problem leads into the problem of lack of jobs. All the farmers are trying to find jobs in the same place where everyone is being resettled, so the jobs are becoming rarer and rarer (International Rivers Network and Human Rights in China 2-4, 6). Also, when the farmers and other people have resettled, the government is not giving them proper compensation. So, the farmers are left without farmland to farm and are somewhat deprived of their compensation that the government was supposed to give to them for moving. Overall, the people who will/have been moved, especially the farmers, are a whole lot worse off after they have resettled.
The official numbers of the Three Gorges Dam appear to be fake, along with the success story. The county officials have been lying to journalists about how many pole have been resettled. The county officials also said that the resettlement program was ahead of schedule, when in reality the resettlement program is behind schedule. The main purpose of these county...