Land seizure in China

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PhotoBlog - One woman's desperate stand to protect her home from demolition

Huang Sufang, a resident of the Chinese city of Guangzhou, mounted a desperate last stand to protect her home as demolition workers moved in on Wednesday.

According to local media cited by Reuters, part of Huang's house was mistakenly demolished as workers were flattening another building nearby.

Hers was one of more than 1,000 homes in Yangji, a former village that has been swallowed up by the rapid expansion of Guangzhou, China's third-largest city with a population of over 12 million.

In 2010, China Daily reported that Yangji was one of 138 'urban villages' in Guangzhou earmarked for demolition to make way for new developments in the next decade.

Disputes over land rights are the leading cause of surging unrest across China, according to a study cited by Bloomberg News.

they really need give proper compensation when government seize the land or just stop doing this all together.

 

[trackwhack]

wow ... ruthless, sad ... but efficient.

 

[singa]

they really need give proper compensation when government seize the land or just stop doing this all together.

I had read the Chinese version of this story from Internet. They said this woman is not the official owner of the house. That means the name printed in property ownership certificate is not her name. However, she claimed that she paid the money to the owner of the house privately. Now the price of property goes up and she want to claim half amount of the total compensation.

 

[s002wjh]

I had read the Chinese version of this story from Internet. They said this woman is not the official owner of the house. That means the name printed in property ownership certificate is not her name. However, she claimed that she paid the money to the owner of the house privately. Now the price of property goes up and she want to claim half amount of the total compensation.

maybe, but this is just one case out of thousands. land seize by corrupted local government is one of the biggest issue china facing today.

 

[Ray]

This is common place in China.

If one reads Pallavi Aiyar's Smoke and Mirrors, there is references to the same.