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CHONGQING (CHINA): The number of people relocated to make way for the massive Three Gorges Project in China has surpassed the planned 1.13 million and is expected to top 1.4 million, an official has said. More than 1.2 million persons, or over 85 per cent of the updated plan, have been resettled, said Pu Haiqing, head of the Office of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee under the State Council. The rest will be relocated before the water level in the reservoir reaches 175 metres when the world's largest hydro-power project is completed in 2008, one year earlier than scheduled. The Government, seeking harmonious interaction between economic development and natural resources, decided to increase the number in consideration of the bearing capacity of the local ecology. — Xinhua

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