Projects aid progress in reservoir area

Once a poor and fragile region, the Three Gorges Reservoir area has undergone major changes over the past three decades. Thanks to a national pairing assistance system, the area has entered a new phase of high-quality development, with more projects being introduced.

In 1992, some 20 cities and counties in Chongqing and neighboring Hubei province, collectively known as the Three Gorges Reservoir area, began the mass relocation of about 1.3 million residents to enable the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydropower project.

Chongqing relocated 1.12 million people, accounting for 86 percent of the total. The city's Wanzhou district, a major economic power on the Yangtze River, relocated 263,000.