"Farmers moved in China’s bid to protect rural land; Local government policy often forces stressful relocation" by Gillian Wong, Associated Press / March 27, 2011
JIANGZHUANG VILLAGE, China — The relocations, often forced and at compensation levels deemed unfair, are raising tensions in a countryside already straining from protests over official misdeeds....
The problems appear to stem from a well-intentioned new national land policy that has gone awry in the hands of greedy and sometimes corrupt local officials....
Many farmers are happy to cut their ties to the land for better living standards, particularly those able to find jobs in nearby cities....
That's when I started souring on this PoS.
Li Huishan said he is happy with his 1,300-square-foot apartment but concerned about how long the $46,000 he received would last him and his wife....
But others are unhappy. In Jiangsu province, hundreds of farmers marched twice last year to the offices of the Hua’an city government to protest against officials who withheld 70 percent of money owed to them after they moved into apartments, said Li Jinsong, a lawyer for one of the farmers.
In "authoritarian" China?
Yeah, that non-payment of money owed is considered a personal affront.
Professor Zheng Fengtian, a rural economy expert at Renmin University in Beijing, said that farmers find that apartment living brings costs they cannot afford. No longer subsisting on their land, they must pay for food, water, gas, and repairs....
The globalist model for the entire planet.
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