The city is fully urban, with no rural dwellers within the city's administrative boundaries.
And it is not only rural dwellers who are fearful for its future.
Researchers have attempted to compare the health of rural and urban dwellers.
Third, rural dwellers are not a homogeneous group, different 'types' of people live under this label.
While research plays a fundamental role in speaking for rural dwellers, it also provides decision makers with evidence based information.
Of a population of 3,600,000 almost 2,900,000 were rural dwellers while 700,000 lived in cities.
In the 1980's, many of China's 800 million rural dwellers took their first earnings from economic reform and built new houses.
China's urban population now exceeds the number of rural dwellers for first time in its history.
This can be a help, but on its own is no panacea for all the problems facing the rural dweller.
Many rural dwellers living near the dam still cook with wood.