Five thousand residents from Chongqing have been resettled in eastern Jiangxi Province to make way for the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River.

The world's largest hydropower project requires the relocation of about 1.13 million residents from the Three Gorges Reservoir area, which is located in Chongqing Municipality and neighboring Hubei Province.

Some of these migrants, including 70,000 from Chongqing, are expected to move to other provinces.

Since 2000, migrants from Chongqing have moved to the counties of Jing'an, Fengxin, Yongxiu and Shanjiang in Jiangxi.

Local governments have made electricity, water and roads accessible for these migrants' new communities and offered other assistance to help them adapt to the new environment.

Construction of the Three Gorges Project began in 1993, with estimated investment of 50.09 billion yuan (6.04 billion U.S. dollars) by completion in 2009.

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