Immigrant compensation in Weinan, Shaanxi Province began in that year.

According to the State Council's Opinions on Improving the Support Policies for Large and Medium-sized Reservoir Immigrants, in 2006, the state subsidized immigrants, and each household subsidized 600 yuan every year.

The compensation standard stipulated in the regulations is: if cultivated land is requisitioned for the construction of large and medium-sized water conservancy and hydropower projects, the sum of land compensation fee and resettlement subsidy is 16 times of the average annual output value of the cultivated land in the first three years.