 Between 1992 and 1997, 23,000 Chinese farmers were resettled in Tangshan City, Hebei to make way for the Taolinkou reservoir, some to east of Beijing.By 2004, more than eight years after they had been moved, the displaced farmers had not been properly compensated.The farmers asserted that up to 60 million yuan of compensation funds had been misappropriated by officials from the local Government.