The Three Gorges and harmonious development

China's massive Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, was expected to require the relocation of 1.1 million people. It turns out a few more, 300,000 more actually, are going to be joining them. The head of the dam's construction committee, Pu Haiqing, announced the inconvenience in impeccable bureaucratese:

"Considering the ecological capacity of the reservoir areas, the need for the migrants to prosper and the pursuit of harmonious development, the government considers it suitable to increase the number of people being resettled."

Prosperity and harmonious development -- who can quarrel with that?