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| Two million to be moved in one of largest relocations in Chinese history |
| 2012-11-01 |
| It is billed as the "final offensive" against extreme poverty in China's poorest province. Between now and 2020, two million people are to be moved from their isolated mountain homes in Guizhou province as part of one of the single largest relocations in recent Chinese history. It is a gargantuan task and one that will cost billions. But provincial authorities claim resettlement is the only way to eliminate the grinding rural poverty that continues to blight China's countryside even after one of the greatest economic booms in human history. "Even if we build roads to reach them, provide drinking water to them and work to alleviate poverty there for another 50 years, the problem might not be addressed," Guizhou's party secretary, Zhao Kezhi, said earlier this year. "[The mountains] Â… barely provide the conditions for sustaining life." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 As per #3, moving them is notsomuch the prob as feeding them, shelter, + finding them solid work, otherwise all the CCP/CPC is doing is foolishly moving the future Rebels that would destroy them closer to their own Govt's bosom. It isn't rocket science, nor does it have to be. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-11-01 22:40 |
| #6 2012 is almost up, got to move them away from those arks. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-01 21:03 |
| #5 I'm sort of thinking along Thusort's lines, too. The statement "[The mountains] ... barely provide the conditions for sustaining life." kind of rings hollow as folks have been living in these same mountains for, I don't know, thousands of years? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2012-11-01 20:51 |
| #4 I'd say ET1144 has it just about spot-on. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2012-11-01 20:27 |
| #3 These Party retards are building the seeds of rebellion that will involve the large scale slaughter of party functionaries along with their families (pretty much how the Chinese Civil War wound down after the 1949 Communist victory). |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2012-11-01 20:23 |
| #2 are the Miao stirring for trouble again? |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2012-11-01 19:42 |
| #1 Lemme guess: they are sitting on reserves of oil, gas and precious metals. |
| Posted by: Thusort Ebbomoting1144 2012-11-01 17:49 |