中国宣传三峡工程环境影响“好于预期”

BEIJING IN PROPAGANDA PUSH ON THREE GORGES DAM

By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing

Friday, November 23, 2007

The Chinese government has launched a propaganda campaign to counter growing
criticism of the human and environmental costs of the Three Gorges dam.

Following months of reports from domestic and international media on the
dam's negative repercussions, the government's top “information office”
has organised a series of press conferences as well as a chaperoned visit to
the dam region in the coming weeks.

China's state-controlled domestic media have been full this week of stories
and interviews with senior officials that play down the environmental impact
of the world's largest hydroelectric project and lay out a new “action
plan” to deal with the problems.

The reports do not mention complaints from many of the 1.3m people displaced
by the dam over unpaid compensation and inadequate government assistance.

The state-run English- language China Daily ran two similar articles within
a week, both quoting Wang Xiaofeng, chairman of the State Council's Three
Gorges project committee, saying the environmental impact of the dam was not
as severe as the government had predicted. The spotlight of global and
domestic media attention had been focused onproblems associated with the dam
after the same Mr Wang was quoted in state media in September as warning of
an environmental catastrophe if urgent action were not taken.

His earlier comments were made at a government- sponsored forum and echoed
an earlier warning from Wen Jiabao, the premier, to officials to pay close
attention to the environmental impact of the dam.



中国宣传三峡工程环境影响“好于预期”


英国《金融时报》吉密欧(Jamil Anderlini)北京报道
2007年11月23日 星期五

中国政府已启动一项宣传攻势，以反击外界对三峡大坝造成的人类和环境成本日益增多
的批评。

在国内外媒体对三峡大坝的负面影响进行了数月报道之后，中国政府最高“信息办公
室”已组织了一系列记者招待会，并将在未来数周对三峡坝区进行陪同访问。

中国政府高层官员试图淡化三峡工程带来的环境影响，并推出一项新的“行动计划”，
以应对相关问题。中国国内受政府控制的媒体本周一直在大量报道与这些官员相关的新
闻和采访。三峡是全球最大的水电工程。

这些报道并未提及许多三峡大坝移民对补偿未兑现和政府援助不足的抱怨。三峡工程导
致130万人被迁居。

中国官方英文媒体《中国日报》(China Daily)在一周内发表了两篇类似报道，均援引国
务院三峡工程建设委员会办公室主任汪啸风的话称，三峡工程造成的环境影响没有政府
预期的那么严重。9月份，中国官方媒体曾援引汪啸风的警告称，如果政府不迅速采取行
动，三峡大坝可能会酿成环境灾难。此后，国内外媒体的注意力一直集中在三峡工程相
关问题上。

汪啸风是在一次政府发起的论坛上发表最初言论的，以回应国务院总理温家宝早些时候
发出的警告。此前，温家宝警告政府官员称，要密切关注三峡大坝的环境影响。

译者/何黎

海洋@饼干

要好好学习英语!那么多国外媒体关注中国,是好意还是冷眼旁观! [s:69]

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