Abstract: | Based on the review of related researches on sustainable development of reservoir immigrants, the major obstacles to the sustainable development of nearby resettled immigrants in Danjiangkou Reservoir area are analyzed by means of questionnaire. It is founded that conflict between immigrants and land, employment pressure, low educational level of immigrants, and the backward environmental protection practice relative to the environmental protection awareness are the major obstacles. In view of the reality in the reservoir area, the countermeasures, including controlling population, creating employment opportunities through various channels, increasing immigrants' human capital, improving social security system, and ensuring the sharing of project benefits among immigrants, are put forward to realize the sustainable development of the immigrants in the reservoir area. |