China's Dispossessed

Published: Jan. 17, 2011, 11:06 p.m.

In the first of a short series of programmes, Peter Day reports from China. This week - the dispossessed. In the past 30 years China\xe2\u20ac\u2122s great economic modernisation programme has required many people to move \xe2\u20ac\u201c to provide a workforce for the thousands of factories producing goods for the global market and for big domestic infrastructure projects like the 3 Gorges Dam and now the South to North Water Diversion project. \nProducer: Julie Ball\nEditor: Stephen Chilcott