China targets land grabs, forced evictions in new law
This file photo shows old residential buildings being demolished to make room for skyscrapers in Shanghai. In China, land can only be owned by the state or collective organisations. Private individuals or businesses can only buy the right to use land for up to 70 years. – AFP pic, June 6, 2020.
FARMERS in China have faced forced evictions and illicit land grabs for decades – sources of social unrest that the government is finally trying to address in a major shake-up of its property law. Millions of hectares of rural land were taken away from farmers in the past three decades and given to developers as China raced to urbanise, often with little or no compensation in return.
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