(HAO TONGQIAN)

Children play as farmers in Hongjiagou Village in Danjiangkou City, central China's Hubei Province, load belongings on a truck on December 8 before moving to new homes.

The relocation of more than 760 residents from their mountainous hometown in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area is part of a massive relocation program for the giant south-to-north water diversion project.

By 2014, a total of 330,000 migrants from Hubei and neighboring Hunan Province will be relocated for the multi-million-dollar project, which is designed to channel water from south China, mainly the Yangtze River, to the parched north.