The Baihetan hydropower project sits on the Jinsha River at the boundary between Qiaojia County in Yunnan and Ningnan County in Sichuan. A January 2021 report by the Qiaojia county discipline inspection commission records the scale of the Qiaojia reservoir relocation: 17,153 households and 50,178 people in its account. It describes oversight of housing allocation by lottery in Jintang and Chongxi. These are dated administrative figures, not a current population count or a full record of individual experience.
The lottery is a revealing administrative scene. Officials monitored the allocation process, checked eligibility and reviewed complaints, while households waited to learn which unit would become their new home. In another site, the same report records 1,264 households and 3,635 residents moving into newly allocated apartments in the Jintang and Chongxi areas at that point in the process. A close article can follow this documented moment while recognizing that fair allocation procedures do not by themselves capture the emotional or economic consequences of relocation.