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Saving farmland
March 11, 2011, Friday
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WE cannot sacrifice farmland to build a new countryside.
Yes, some farmers may prefer to move from traditional low buildings into high-rise buildings. But they often have no money to buy into highrises. As such, they likely will mortgage their land to calculating real estate developers. The inevitable result: Those farmers move into high-rises but lose farmland - the very source of their life.
Yang Xiuhua, NPC deputy and Party secretary of a village in Hebei Province
Yes, some farmers may prefer to move from traditional low buildings into high-rise buildings. But they often have no money to buy into highrises. As such, they likely will mortgage their land to calculating real estate developers. The inevitable result: Those farmers move into high-rises but lose farmland - the very source of their life.
Yang Xiuhua, NPC deputy and Party secretary of a village in Hebei Province
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