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BEIJING IN PROPAGANDA PUSH ON THREE GORGES DAM By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
Friday, November 23, 2007
The Chinese government has launched a propaganda campaign to counter growing criticism of the human and environmental costs of the Three Gorges dam.
Following months of reports from domestic and international media on the dam's negative repercussions, the government's top “information office” has organised a series of press conferences as well as a chaperoned visit to the dam region in the coming weeks.
China's state-controlled domestic media have been full this week of stories and interviews with senior officials that play down the environmental impact of the world's largest hydroelectric project and lay out a new “action plan” to deal with the problems.
The reports do not mention complaints from many of the 1.3m people displaced by the dam over unpaid compensation and inadequate government assistance.
The state-run English- language China Daily ran two similar articles within a week, both quoting Wang Xiaofeng, chairman of the State Council's Three Gorges project committee, saying the environmental impact of the dam was not as severe as the government had predicted. The spotlight of global and domestic media attention had been focused onproblems associated with the dam after the same Mr Wang was quoted in state media in September as warning of an environmental catastrophe if urgent action were not taken.
His earlier comments were made at a government- sponsored forum and echoed an earlier warning from Wen Jiabao, the premier, to officials to pay close attention to the environmental impact of the dam.
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