The human cost of China's biggest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam, has risen beyond the government's forecasts, Xinhua news agency revealed this week. An extra 300,000 people will have to be relocated, bringing the total to 1.4 million.
"Considering the ecological capacity of the reservoir areas, the need for the migrants to prosper and the pursuit of harmonious development, the government considers it suitable to increase the number of people being resettled," said Pu Haiqing, head of the dam's construction committee.
Completion of the dam is due in May.
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