Elaine Kurtenbach: Farmers losing land, livelihood to capitalist-style urban sprawl

From The Chicago Sun-Times:

The communist leadership that decades ago dispossessed landlords and gave their acreage to the farmers is now championing capitalist-style reforms that are taking the land away, field by field, house by house. Cities raze old neighborhoods and annex villages to build factories, golf courses and upscale apartment compounds.

The politically volatile issue will be the backdrop, if not the agenda, for China’s annual legislative session, which starts Saturday in Beijing. Disputes over land and irrigation water have already led to violent clashes, threatening the Communist Party’s claim as the guarantor of social stability and worsening the gap between rich cities and a vast, impoverished countryside that is home to two-thirds of China’s population.

Thanks to Yong Liu for providing last four links through del.icio.us

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