China's Three Gorges Dam project may force more resettlements
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State media reports posted on a government website cited an official with the Ministry of Land Resources as telling China National Radio that the number of landslides and other disasters had increased 70% since the water level in the huge reservoir rose to its maximum level in 2010.
Liu Yuan, the ministry official, said surging waves from such events also posed a threat to shipping.
More than 1.3 million people already have been resettled due to the huge project on the Yangtze River.
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