The battle of Shengyou village has come to highlight one of China’s sharpest social issues – the Communist Party’s complete control of land allocation.
More than 66 million Chinese farmers have lost their land in the past 10 years. It is a land grab which has fattened the wallets of government officials and left tens of thousands of people homeless.
China faces growing land disputes – Daniel Griffiths
Posted by Sophie Beach | Aug 2, 2005
Categories : Law,Politics,The Great Divide
Tags :land,land disputes,shengyou
