Rough waters in China.Near Tiger Leaping Gorge in Western China, local farmers are angry that plans are being made to dam the Yangtze river Yangtze River Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch'ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the Tanggula Mountains in west-central China, it flows southeast before turning northeast and then generally east across south-central and east-central China to the East China , flood the gorge, and force the relocation RELOCATION, Scotch law, contracts. To let again to renew a lease, is called a relocation. 2. When a tenant holds over after the expiration of his lease, with the consent of his landlord, this will amount to a relocation. of thousands of people. And they are getting vocal. Similar dramas are unfolding all across China, where villagers are being told that if they want to participate in China's economic growth, they must accept dams or factories that destroy their environment. They don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. like this deal, but China's rigid political system leaves these farmers, who are still the majority in China today, with few legal options for fighting it. How China's ruling party manages the environmental, social, economic, and political tensions converging con·verge v. con·verged, con·verg·ing, con·verg·es v.intr. 1. a. To tend toward or approach an intersecting point: lines that converge. b. on such places as Tiger Leaping Gorge will determine China's near-term political stability. |
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