The resettlement of about 92,000 residents originally living around the Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China's Hubei Province, a source of the south-north water diversion project's middle route, has been completed.

The water diversion project will take water from China's longest river, the Yangtze, to supply drought-prone areas in the north from 2014. Water will flow north via eastern, middle and western routes. Construction of the eastern and middle routes started in 2002 and 2003, respectively. Pre-construction evaluations of the western route will begin soon.

The construction of the middle route involved the relocation of 330,000 people from Hubei and Henan provinces. The relocated residents have been settled in new communities in other parts of the two provinces.