Caption: Fengdu, Hubei, China - Nov 2002. A Chinese worker salvaging bricks from the remnants of Fengdu, an ancient city on the shores of the Yangtze

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Caption: Fengdu, Hubei, China - Nov 2002. A Chinese worker salvaging bricks from the remnants of Fengdu, an ancient city on the shores of the Yangtze River that is being dismantled to make way for the new Three Gorges dam. Workers are paid an average US$ 10 cents an hour to demolish their own houses after which they will be required to pay three times their houses original value to purchase them back in the new cities being built on higher ground. million people will lose their homes with the flooding of the Yangtze. Credit: Leisa Contact: Legal Notice: Any use of this picture is subject to a license agreement entered into by the user and AsiaWorks Photography Ltd. All other rights reserved. Any re-use and redistribution of this image is prohibited. For sales enquiries regarding any additional use of this or other pictures from AsiaWorks Photography please contact

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Photo credit: © Leisa Tyler / Alamy / Afripics
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