Longtan Dam - Displaced People

Longtan Dam - Displaced People

Many of the farmers displaced by Longtan Dam have not been resettled onto new lands as promised. The region of Guangxi is very mountainous and there is little remaining land in the area of the dam that is not steeply sloped.

About this community

Dam
Longtan Dam
River
Hongshui River
Established
1900
Inundated
2006
Population
74,728

Sources

  • Dengcai Yan and Jingwei He, "Where Is the Land? Spatial Matching of Replacement Land and the Risk of Impoverishment: Comparative Evidence from Four Hydropower and Water Conservancy Projects in China," 2026
  • https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/10/1973