Cambodia (AP) - to establish a complete jungle valley in a remote corner, Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers to improve the 100 meters (330 feet) high dam villagers' protests and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame Tatay and other rivers of the world and province, southeast Asia the last great wilderness regions.
This is a situation where it is difficult to unique. China's large state-owned enterprises and Banks has been completed, are studying or put forward about 300 from Algeria, Burma's dam.
Poor countries against the dam millions of life can not do without it gives power and improve the living standard of the key. Environmentalists and other opponents against the world the first dam builders, is China, and be willing and able to place most western companies, the world bank and others will not step, because on the environment, social, political or financing problems.
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"China is a financier can provide capital project, do not accord with international standard," said Ian baird assistant was in southeast Asia for decades, the United States of the university of Wisconsin geography professor. "You go to China, if you want to have their money.
Therefore, critics say, thoughtless, destructive large dam time has past, many people think that is a rolled back. The recent trend is the whole river dam a cascade of obstacles, as China's state-owned China national water resources and hydropower construction puts forward the Colombian magdalene river, south side in Laos, seven dam contract has been signed.
In the developing world through some basic icon of progress, the state, Ecuador, Burma, Zambia, take the lead in strengthening China's rising economic power in the world, far away from each other. They tied with other infrastructure projects and enterprises at the same time, the ranks of power generation equipment, electrical machinery and equipment as China's second largest export industry.
Lack of energy in Cambodia, and China's trade has five years ago from 10% to 19% of GDP, according to the international monetary fund data ap analysis.
The age of the $280 million Kamchay dam located in Cambodia kampot province biggest foreign investment approval as the carrier, Beijing as a political symbol. It was known as the two governments for "China and the symbol of the close relationship between Cambodia."
Beach Narith, generally in the industrial, mining and deputy director of the department of energy says, Cambodia's electricity demand growth rates of more than 16% growth, 2002-11 years, largely meet the expensive oil import shortage. Only 14% of rural households have power, in southeast Asia, one of the lowest level.
"We have no choice," peace clear Jiao Narith said. "Water and electricity is priority, and China's enthusiasm and ability, finance and technology."
Twenty dam has been built, under construction or in Cambodia are studying Chinese, most of them will remove Cambodia dark words, and make its energy self, he said. He said: "we should have a win-win policy, environmental and energy balance. After all, the power is the basic human needs."
In kampot town nearby Kamchay dam opening, electricity decline, but they are still high.
"Everyone thinks, after the completion of the dam, will be in kampot use additional power supply, the price will be much cheaper, but actually not too big change," the taxi driver PuLuM Virak said.
He said, his house is not every three to four hours for power supply. Electricity prices have dropped to 920 riel (2 3 cents per kilowatt-hour from 1100 riel six months ago, when the power supply is imported from Vietnam.
In Burma, China can build up to fifty dam, rekindle the nation's rebellion in 2011 and incite more widely, smoldering against China's rebound. In Africa and Latin America's large dam sometimes sparked violent protests.
In myanmar dense pine hydropower station dam thousands of people were displaced and flooded the spirit of the central zone, kachin minorities, lead project, take up arms again one of the reasons.
The government suddenly cancel, earlier this year, a warning shot, China must clean up their own image, if not its behavior, in order to avoid political and economic influence, analysts say.
The dam construction power for the rise of China began in the 21st century, as the company beat when western mainstream competitors, just as an dam lobbyist in the world bank celebrate the victory, before that, the international leading dam financiers. In the United States, where the golden age of the dam, in the 1960 s to reach the top, and score retired.
The personage inside course of study introduces, watch the world dam committee, set higher mandatory standard, in order to reduce the negative influence of the large dam - the deterioration of the environment and roots community, the consumption of aquatic organism - and maximize the positive trend: flood control, irrigation farmland, for domestic and industrial clean energy.
"The Chinese now sure dilution standard debate., Grace said:" we talk about basic mang, monitoring China's dam industry in the United States environmental protection organization international rivers. "There is a rule to follow the project will be put off, perhaps for decades, or down, the future Chinese companies and Banks under the assistance, back online."
In this project:
- Nepal signing di dam, this will force about 10000 poor villagers from their homes, in biodiversity rich region. Later, Limbo it hung in Australia snow mountain engineering company failed to attract international capital providers, the Asian development bank take out, because the dam does not conform to the standard. After 6 months, China to cancel the above project.




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