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Villager, deprived of rare find, to sue government
By Li Qian |
July 9, 2012, Monday
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A villager in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province wants to sue his local government for seizing a rare piece of fossilized timber, estimated at 20 million yuan (US$3.138 million), from him and giving him just 70,000 yuan as "reward."
Wu Gaoliang accused the Tongji Town government of "abusing power" and "seizing the ownership" of a 34-meter-long, 6-ton trunk of fossilized Phoebe Zhennan he found in his contracted farm field.
Phoebe Zhennan was the most prized timber in ancient China and only royal families and temples could use them.
"The government should have obtained a court approval to take possession of this timber before it was dug out," he told the Chengdu Economic Daily.
Wu said he deserves a cash reward of 4 million yuan and he had spent 200,000 yuan to unearth this fossilized tree, which had been buried for tens of millions of year.
But the town officials quoted the Chinese law that ownerless objects buried in the ground belong to the state and said the fossilized Phoebe Zhennan is a national treasury.
Wu Gaoliang accused the Tongji Town government of "abusing power" and "seizing the ownership" of a 34-meter-long, 6-ton trunk of fossilized Phoebe Zhennan he found in his contracted farm field.
Phoebe Zhennan was the most prized timber in ancient China and only royal families and temples could use them.
"The government should have obtained a court approval to take possession of this timber before it was dug out," he told the Chengdu Economic Daily.
Wu said he deserves a cash reward of 4 million yuan and he had spent 200,000 yuan to unearth this fossilized tree, which had been buried for tens of millions of year.
But the town officials quoted the Chinese law that ownerless objects buried in the ground belong to the state and said the fossilized Phoebe Zhennan is a national treasury.
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