ECOLOGICAL MIGRATION MODEL TOWN
A dust storm sweeps the huge square of the Hongsibao resettlement town, in Ningxia Province.//
Hongsibao, the model town, created from scratch to resettle 200,000 ecological refugees from thearid mountains, in Ningxia Province, is the biggest resettlement of that kind in China. The new town,that stands amidst 42 villages, has ÒeverythingÓ: shops, a market, a huge square with futuristic
streetlights and even a middle range hotel. Irrigation pumps and channels draw water from the nearby
Yellow River to sustain that manmade oasis in the desert.
Hongsibao resettlement area, Ningxia Province, China Ñ April 14, 2007.
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