A Chinese Village Sacrifices For The Greater Good – China News

www.npr.org — Imagine taking the entire population of Cincinnati, and moving everyone to new houses elsewhere. That's effectively what's happening in China: Three hundred thirty thousand people are being relocated for what's being called the largest engineering project in the country's history. It's a $62 billion water diversion project 60 years in the making, channeling water from the south of the country to the drought-prone north.

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