This is the panorama of the Three Gorges project taken on Oct. 1, 2006. The water level in the reservoir reaches 142.16 meters at 8 am that day. The number of people relocated to make way for the project has surpassed the planned 1.13 million and is expected to top 1.4 million, an official said the same day. Currently, more than 1.2 million people, or over 85 percent 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 meters when the world's largest hydro-power project is completed in 2008, one year earlier than scheduled, Pu said.
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