State acts over housing scandal
By Jane Chen |
May 26, 2010, Wednesday
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THE State Council, China's cabinet, has released an emergency document banning local governments from enforced land use.
It urged local governments to publish compensation standards for residents affected by land reclamation by the end of June. Officials face penalties if their improper handling of land use results in "negative consequences."
Residents' reasonable demands must be accommodated, the document said.
The ministries of Land and Resources and Supervision yesterday published a list of 16 city governments that had occupied 40,666.66 hectares of land without obtaining proper certification.
All provincial governments across the country were guilty of improper land use, though to varying degrees, Land and Resources Minister Xu Shaoshi said.
A total of 1,932 people have been referred to prosecutors over the issue.
Meanwhile, villagers in one area of northern China are sheltering in tents and makeshift shacks after more than 1,000 homes were demolished in 10 days in a 2-billion-yuan (US$292.79-million) urban-reconstruction project.
Li Yunde and her husband are living in a 10-square-meter tent on the ruins of their home in Guangping County of Hebei Province's Handan City.
Farmland lost
Their children are staying with relatives outside the village, yesterday's Beijing Times newspaper reported.
Li said the government demolished their five-room house of 290 sqm soon after issuing a removal notice for an urban-construction project to upgrade 10 key roads and add 1 million sqm of green space in the county.
The government also confiscated her 2,000 sqm of farming land.
Without negotiation, the government offered Li 90,000 yuan in compensation, she told the newspaper. The money was "not enough" for another home.
Another 1,000 families in the area had their houses demolished between March 18 and 28. They were offered compensation for their homes of about 400 yuan per sqm, compared with new home prices of roughly 1,500 yuan in Guangping.
The demolition was fast because the government did not sign any agreements with residents concerning demolition and compensation, according to Zhao Fenghe, director of the Guangping Housing and Urban Planning Commission.
To solve problems for the now-homeless, the government plans to build hundreds of houses and sell them at 900 yuan a sqm to affected residents, according to Wang Weiyu, an official of the Guangping government.
It is not known when construction for the new homes will start.
It urged local governments to publish compensation standards for residents affected by land reclamation by the end of June. Officials face penalties if their improper handling of land use results in "negative consequences."
Residents' reasonable demands must be accommodated, the document said.
The ministries of Land and Resources and Supervision yesterday published a list of 16 city governments that had occupied 40,666.66 hectares of land without obtaining proper certification.
All provincial governments across the country were guilty of improper land use, though to varying degrees, Land and Resources Minister Xu Shaoshi said.
A total of 1,932 people have been referred to prosecutors over the issue.
Meanwhile, villagers in one area of northern China are sheltering in tents and makeshift shacks after more than 1,000 homes were demolished in 10 days in a 2-billion-yuan (US$292.79-million) urban-reconstruction project.
Li Yunde and her husband are living in a 10-square-meter tent on the ruins of their home in Guangping County of Hebei Province's Handan City.
Farmland lost
Their children are staying with relatives outside the village, yesterday's Beijing Times newspaper reported.
Li said the government demolished their five-room house of 290 sqm soon after issuing a removal notice for an urban-construction project to upgrade 10 key roads and add 1 million sqm of green space in the county.
The government also confiscated her 2,000 sqm of farming land.
Without negotiation, the government offered Li 90,000 yuan in compensation, she told the newspaper. The money was "not enough" for another home.
Another 1,000 families in the area had their houses demolished between March 18 and 28. They were offered compensation for their homes of about 400 yuan per sqm, compared with new home prices of roughly 1,500 yuan in Guangping.
The demolition was fast because the government did not sign any agreements with residents concerning demolition and compensation, according to Zhao Fenghe, director of the Guangping Housing and Urban Planning Commission.
To solve problems for the now-homeless, the government plans to build hundreds of houses and sell them at 900 yuan a sqm to affected residents, according to Wang Weiyu, an official of the Guangping government.
It is not known when construction for the new homes will start.
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