ocr: Bearing the Burden Sacrificing for the Three Gorges Dam, farmers and vil- lagers are losing some: of China's most fertile land. Close to the dam the ordeal of relocation has already begun. At the small village of Xiling, east of Zigui, the Zheng family prepares to move from: their ancestral home by lugging belongings to the river, where a boat waits to move them to Dongshi, a village 90 miles downriver. Though the Zhengs' home is situated slightly above the eventual waterline, Zheng Xinnian, village leader and local Communist Party secretary, decided to move: as an example to the family's neig ...
