And do you know how the Chinese accomplish this? by bulldozing thousands of houses and land without care to property rights of the dwellers. Land rights and usage are very different here from China.
Yes, they said so on the western media.
In China, the property right is a complicated issue: legally, no one has permanent right for any land or property. But for resident property, you have 75 years ownership according to law, for farm land, you have unlimited term. By social consensus (which is far more powerful than law), these properties or lands are already belong to you FOR EVER. No one can touch your property without generous compensation: for example, you have one unit in a building to be dismantled, the developer need to offer you cash+2 new units (at least). If a new road is going use your farm land, then you need to get an amount worth at least 10 years income from this land.
Certainly, the protection of property right in China can't match Western standard. But it is still a most protected one in China. People has no problem with the property right protection, they are arguing about how much is appropriate compensation. For most of ordinary Chinese, this is the easiest way get them into millionaires.
Each year, there are over millions of first time Chinese buyers buying new apartments, trillions of private money invested in all kinds of land or properties. They are not fool. They won't buy if they think their rights won't be protected.