The planning for the emigration of the Three Gorges Project has been developed according to the Regulations on the Emigration for the Construction of the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project and the related state laws, regulations, policies, procedures and schemes.

The planning has been made on the following principles:

· Following the policy for the economic development for the emigration;
· The emigration funds shall be distributed on the basis of both the emigrant life-production settlement and the control on the funds distribution planning;
· The progress in the emigrant settlement shall be connected with the progress in the construction of the complex project of the Three Gorges Project;
· The planning for the emigrant settlement shall be connected with the social development and economic growth in the reservoir region and the environmental reservation;
· The state, collective and private benefits shall be all considered and balanced during the emigration; and the emigration shall be economically supported at the early stage, and then the local production/ projects shall be supported for the emigration instead;
· The support and the superior policies of the State Government shall be connected with the various supports and the local independent development to keep the local production and life up to or above the original standards.

Details of the Emigration Planning

In accordance with the planning for the emigration of the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project, 1,105,600 emigrants from the reservoir region have required for the reconstruction of their residential houses; and 1,208,800 emigrants from the reservoir region have required for the reconstruction of their fundamental facilities. As planned,

· By 1997, 115,600 emigrants had removed from the reservoir region, of whom 105,300 emigrants had required for the reconstruction of their residential houses/ buildings;
· From 1998 to 2003, 532,100 emigrants removed from the reservoir region, of whom 454,400 emigrants required for the reconstruction of their residential houses/ buildings;
· From 2004 to 2006, 349,800 emigrants shall have removed from the reservoir region, of whom 454,400 emigrants will have required for the reconstruction of their residential houses/ buildings;
· From 2007 to 2009, 211,300 emigrants shall have removed from the reservoir region, of whom 211,200 emigrants will have required for the reconstruction of their residential houses/ buildings.

In accordance with the planning for the immigration from the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project, the residential houses/ buildings with 368.78 million m2 residential area shall be completed for the immigrants. As planned,

· By 1997, the residential houses/ buildings with 5.2113 million m2 residential area had been completed for the immigrants;
· From 1998 to 2003, the residential houses/ buildings with 15.5494 million m2 residential area were completed for the immigrants;
· From 2004 to 2006, the residential houses/ buildings with 10.0692 million residential area shall have been completed for the immigrants;
· From 2007 to 2009, the residential houses/ buildings with 6.0481 million m2 residential area shall have been completed for the immigrants.

It has been planned that 405,000 rural immigrants shall be settled in connection with their agricultural production, of whom 322,000 immigrants shall be settled within the counties of the reservoir region, part of whose territories will have been submerged for the construction of the Three Gorges Project, while 83,000 immigrants outside the counties of the reservoir region; and 440,000 immigrants shall be settled in connection with the reconstruction of their residential houses, that is, 65,000 immigrants shall be settled in Hubei while 375,000 immigrants in Chongqing. Of the 440,000 immigrants, 315,000 immigrants shall be settled in Hubei while 282,000 immigrants in Chongqing.

The State Council held the working meeting on the emigration for the Three Gorges Project. In May, 1999 to promote the rural emigrants to settle outside their territories, and adjusted the planning for the settlement of the rural emigrants.

The rural population of 83,000 to settle outside their counties has increased up to 125,000, of whom 25,000 shall be settled in the counties outside the reservoir region in Hubei while 100,000 in Chongqing, that is, 17,000 from Wushan, 17,000 from Fengjie, 36,000 from Yunyang, 11,000 from Kaixian, and 19,000 from Zhongxian, within the territories of the Chongqing Region. Of the 100,000 emigrants of Chongqing, 20,000 emigrants will be settled in the counties outside the reservoir region; 10,000 emigrants will come to their relatives for settlement; and 70,000 emigrants will be settled outside the Chongqing Region.

Of the 70,000 emigrants to settle outside Chongqing, 9000 emigrants will be settled in Sichuan Province; 7000 emigrants in Jiangsu Province; 7000 emigrants in Zhejiang Province; 7000 emigrants in Shandong Province; 7000 emigrants in Hubei Province; 7000 emigrants in Guangdong Province; 5500 emigrants in Shanghai; 5500 emigrants in Fujian Province; 5000 emigrants in Anhui Province; 5000 emigrants in Jiangxi Province and 5000 emigrants in Hunan Province.

The economic development is the very solution to the immigration from the reservoir region. The policy for the local economic development for the immigration shall be followed during the settlement of the immigrants. For the local economic development, the natural resources shall be reasonably developed while the ecological environment shall be reserved; and the production structure shall be regulated to promote the local productivities so that the emigrants will remove without worries, settle with the guarantee for their living and work and get gradually richer with their settlement. The emigration repayment funds shall support the continuous economic development with the environmental reservation. During the emigration, the local systems of agriculture, industry and ownership shall be regulated to set free and promote the local productivities so as to improve the local production conditions, the living conditions and the science and technology/ techniques of the immigrants. The local natural resources and manpower shall be fully utilized for the improvement of the local production and living of the immigrants so that the local economy will gradually grow and can more capably support the local development of the immigrants.

A working meeting of the State Council on the emigration for the Three Gorges Project was held in Beijing in May, 1999 to make a decision on two adjustments, that is, the adjustment of the policy for the settlement of the rural immigrants from the reservoir region and the adjustment of the policy for the removal of the production/ mining enterprises.

The policy for the settlement of the rural immigrants from the reservoir region is to settle them nearby and then further from the nearby sites if impossible; to try to settle them in the second and the third industries; and to have them settle with their own business choices. The various settlements shall be made for the rural immigrants from the reservoir region on the basis of the local conditions, that is, the local settlement and the settlement in another regions, the concentrated settlement and the separate settlement, and the governmental settlement and the independent settlement. The local administrations shall promote/ lead more and more rural emigrants to remove to another regions for settlement. The agriculture shall be fully considered for the settlement of the rural immigrants. The ecological agriculture shall be greatly developed, and the second and the third industries shall be promoted in the local areas where there are good conditions for the development of the two industries. It is inapplicable to forcefully apply the policy for the nearby settlement of the rural immigrants from the reservoir region under the condition that the continuous development and the ecological reservation have to be considered for the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project. In addition, the slopes above 25o in the reservoir region shall not be developed for farmland, and those developed farmland slopes shall be gradually planted with trees and grass. The farmland on the slopes below 25o shall be changed into the terraced farmland. The immigrants from the reservoir region shall be first considered to settle in a nonreservoir region of the provincial/ municipal regions. When the province/ state-government-controlled city can’t settle all the immigrants, the immigrants they can’t settle shall first settle in the nearby provinces. When nearby provinces still can’t settle all the immigrants, the immigrants they can’t settle can then settle in the coastal provinces/ state-government-controlled cities and another provinces/ cities downstream of the Yangtze River. It is necessary to fully promote the rural emigrants to come to their relatives for their own settlement in a nonreservoir region to continue their own agricultural production. The State Government shall make the related promoting policies for the rural emigrants and shall support them with necessary economic repayments for their emigration.



The policy for the removal of the production/ ore-mining enterprises has varied from the removal with the technical renovation to the removal with the change of the production structure, the improvement of the product quality and the increase of the profits/ benefits. The managements, administrative systems and the production structures of the production/ ore-mining enterprises shall be totally changed and improved. Shall be closed or made bankrupt all the state-owned and collective production/ ore-mining enterprises whose productions have caused great pollution and whose products have been dull of sales and which can’t afford to repay their debts; and shall cooperate and joint-venture with the related qualified/ famous production/ ore-mining enterprises ready for removal, whose products have been on good sales and well-qualified and whose managements have operated well. All the related administrations shall fully support the production/ ore-mining enterprises on the removal qualified for the stock market. The administration of the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project shall try best to introduce the qualified/ famous enterprises. In addition, the administrations shall improve the investment environments, and what is more important, shall change the attitudes towards the investments. The administrations shall first try to improve the “software” environments for the investments and then make the related supports. The State Government shall make the superior policies to promote the production/ ore-mining enterprises on the removal to change and improve their production systems/ structures.

The two adjustments have made great contribution to the improvement of the emigration, the economic growth of the reservoir region, and particularly, the improvement and reservation of the ecological environment in the reservoir region. The two adjustments will have been written into the annals of the construction of the Three Gorges Project and the Great Development of West China because they have shown and made great contribution to the policy for the economic development for the emigration. The general principle for the repayment to the economic development for the emigration is to make adequate repayment to both the public and the private losses because of the submersion of the reservoir water storage while to the areas of the cities/ counties/ towns to be submerged and the fundamental facilities lost in the submersion of the reservoir water storage in consideration of the proper economic development. In conclusion, the repayments to the emigration for the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project have been divided into three classes as follows.

1. Deficiency Repayment for the Losses on the Basis of the New Pricing

All the public and private buildings, the roads, the transmission/ lines/ projects, the communication lines shall be repaid on the basis of their dimensions of the newly-built structures/ lines no matter how old they are or whether they are old or new. Such repayment can help the immigrants to build up their new buildings/ structures of the original dimensions/ standards at their new sites of immigration. If the immigrants have certain deposits for their larger or higher-standard buildings, they may build up their own larger or higher-standard buildings with their deposits. The facilities such as the roads, the transmission/ lines, the communication lines and the ports shall have the original features after their reconstruction in addition to their repayment of the newly-built structures/ buildings.

2. Proper Repayment for the Economic Development
The old towns to be submerged for the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project all have the layouts of crowded buildings/ houses with the concentrated populations while having relatively small spaces for further development with the poor sanitary conditions. The average land occupation is usually 25~30 m2 per head. The State Government has made the proper repayment for their economic development to them to completely change their local conditions in the reservoir region of the Three Gorges Project. It has been concluded that the emigrants of the cities/ towns shall have their repayment per head in accordance with the residential areas of the residents of the cities/ towns of emigration stipulated by the Ministry of Construction of P.R. China no matter how large areas they have had in their old cities/ towns and in consideration of the potential increases in the populations of the cities/ towns. The standards for the residential areas of the cities/ towns are the residential area of 80 m2 per head in a city, the residential area of 70 m2 per head in a county town, the residential area of 66 m2 per head in a town of the first class and the residential area of 61 m2 per head in a town of the second class. It should be stressed that 60%~70% cities/ towns haven’t reached the state standards for residence according to the statistics of the Ministry of Construction, P.R. China. The nine occupational areas have increased by 2.3~2.65 times. The public facilities and occupational areas have been repaid according to the standards of the Ministry of Construction, P.R. China, such as the water and power supplies, the drainage facilities, the public sanitary facilities, the roads, the fire-fighting facilities and the public grass/ trees occupational areas.

To develop the education in the reservoir region, all the schools submerged or to be submerged have been repaid with the proper development payment, including the repayment for development, that is, 150 RMB yuan per head on the basis of the rural emigration. Another 120 RMB yuan per square meter of the school construction area shall be paid in addition to the original repayment on the basis of the construction areas of the school houses/ buildings.



3. Dynamic Repayment on the Basis of the Economic Growth

One of the differences between the emigration on the basis of the economic development and the immigration on the basis of the settlement is based on the dynamic increase factors of the population and the prices. The increase of the population in the consideration of the emigration covers 1.2% natural increase of the population. In addition to the above national increase of the population, the increase of the population in the related cities/ towns of the reservoir region covers the mechanical increase of the population, the necessary emigration, the population of the new cities/ towns and the permanent residents without the residential certificates. During 1991~1992, it was worked out in the investigation that the population involved in the submersion of the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project was 847,500; and it is precipitated on the basis of the various increase factors that the final emigrants will have been 1,130,000 by 2009. The total repayment for the emigration because of the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project will be 40 billion RMB yuan, which is based on the pricing of the end of May, 1993. Yet the emigration because of the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project will have lasted 17 years from 2003 to 2009. The price raises during the 17 years shall be considered for the repayment for the emigration so as to keep the repayment equivalent to the prices which will occur when the emigrants remove and to timely complete the projects and services for the emigration on the basis o f the timely prices. To precisely, justly and reasonably make the repayment for the emigration because of the reservoir water storage of the Three Gorges Project, TGPC has invited the qualified organizations to make the calculation of the variable prices in the reservoir region and to annually work out the price indexes and the annual difference on the basis of the price indexes so that TGPC can timely repay the difference of the repayment. This is part of the static and dynamic repayment controls.