From the South China Morning Post, again via China Study Group: “Beijing has issued new compensation policies to appease farmers who have borne the brunt of a wave of land expropriation, state media reports.
Local governments should provide subsidies to farmers who were unable to maintain their living standards because of the lax enforcement of existing compensation packages, the Ministry of Land and Resources said.
Local authorities are supposed to reimburse farmers for seized land and also pay their resettlement costs. The payment ceiling set by the government is 30 times the average annual output of the land. But local officials had been using a range of excuses to get around the rule, a ministry official told Xinhua. ”
