Guangxi Allocated 181.79 Billion Yuan for Reservoir Resettlement

What changed

Guangxi allocated 181.79 billion yuan for reservoir-resettlement support during China’s 14th Five-Year Plan. The money covered more than 1.84 million approved migrants across 14 cities and 105 counties.

• 143.64 billion yuan came from post-support funds.
• 38.15 billion yuan came from general public budgets.
• 54.49 billion yuan went directly to migrants.
• 127.3 billion yuan funded local projects.

Why it matters

This was not only a cash-transfer programme. Most of the money went into the places where resettled communities live: farmland and water facilities, transport, power, communications, social services, environmental protection, job training and income-generating projects.

The direct payments were managed through dedicated accounts and Guangxi’s one-card subsidy system, with funds distributed according to approved population figures and set standards. That makes the programme easier to describe: one part keeps household incomes supported now; the larger part tries to make resettlement areas more capable of supporting themselves later.

The reported results point in that direction. Reservoir migrants’ average disposable income reached 21,670 yuan in 2025, up 35% from 2021 and above Guangxi’s rural average. Housing conditions also improved, with 46,200 migrant households removed from dangerous housing through repairs, renovations and relocation pilots.

The harder test is whether those gains hold after the five-year allocation ends. Guangxi has published the regional totals and outcomes, but not county-level allocations, project completion rates or independent evaluations.