Unsurprisingly, the dark side of China’s construction boom is very dark indeed – whilst tenants in the way of new construction projects are at least now notionally able to refuse to sell up (chiefly because rates may be far below market value), what awaits them may not be pleasant.
In this case, in Kunming, the tenant (an 83-year-old woman) refused to sell, and in an effort to force her out developers levelled the plot around her home and dug a 2m deep moat around her dwelling.
Apparently a more direct eviction method is not out of the question:
Another famous case involving a holdout left on top of a less than reassuring hill:
Yet another rather bizarre example, this time from Beijing, showing an old style townhouse which has apparently somehow managed to refuse the overtures of civil planners (although in all fairness most western nations probably would not allow a holdout to impede a public project to this extent):
Not all are so lucky; in some cases demolitions still proceed without consent or compensation, leaving occupants homeless:
The style of negotiation on display bears some rather striking parallels to recent Chinese diplomacy – China’s neighbours would likely do well to take note.
Beats the US, where if you hold out, they just rezone your property and force you out by law. Then take your land and through careful bureaucratic processes, resell it at below market prices to developers.
This of course, after they offer your land to you for lower than market value (often trying to give you the price it was worth in the 50’s.)
This happened in a nearby city that was growing. Lots of old farms, with not a lot of money to defend themselves. They got rezoned, and eminent domain was claimed on their land for use for the public good.
Public good being for use for a private entity to profit off of.
I think picture #9 is Photoshopped! If you look closely, you can see the brush strokes!
why do people hate chinese government so much while all they do is oppressing the chinese…because they have limited budget while US invade other countries to steal their resources so their citizen can have comfortable life
the funny part is the citizen of the world like to show the negative thing that chinese government did to their own citizen but the citizen of the world tend to racist toward the chinese when the chinese come to their countries or call chinese names or chinks when they talk to chinese…..
This bullshit about developers offering unfair or below market prices to the holdouts doesn’t stand to reason.
Look at the size of the construction sites that they have cleared. There would have been at least 20-30 more households there originally that the developers have already bought out. To double or even triple the offer for the last holdout would only mean a 10% increase in total land acquisition cost, which is an insignificant price for the convenience of being able to smoothly proceed with the project. Most of these holdouts however demand exorbitant prices for the chance of a quick fortune just by sitting on their ass.
lol