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Official Bludgeoned With Farm Tool Over Land Dispute
A villager in eastern China’s Jiangxi province is facing murder charges after allegedly bludgeoning a local cadre to death with a hoe during a land dispute. Zhuo Yu, chairman of the Shibatang Township...
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Xinjiang Herdsman’s Fight for His Meteorite
Zhuman Ramazan didn’t have to venture far afield to wish upon a shooting star. More than 30 years ago, the herdsman of Kazak ethnicity discovered an immense meteorite in his pasture in Altay,...
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Smog Tourists Aren’t the Answer to Hainan’s Fragile Economy
Hainan, China’s only large tropical island, lies in splendid isolation 20 miles or so off the mainland’s southern coast. Every winter, its top resort city, Sanya, throngs with tens of thousands of...
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Beijing Shuts Housing Market’s Sham Divorce Loophole
Getting an insincere divorce will no longer make it cheaper to buy a second home in Beijing. The tactic was popular among those wishing to circumvent rules that make buying a second house more...
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Chengdu Homebuying Restrictions Crush Out-of-Towner’s Dream
She was just one step away from buying a house, but then it all came tumbling down. The woman had made the down payment on a home in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province, and...
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China’s Rental Market Riled by Shady Tenants-Turned-Landlords
BEIJING — On a scorching summer afternoon, Guo Lei arrived in Beijing with her boyfriend, dragging several chunky suitcases behind her. The pair headed to the Tiantongyuan neighborhood on the northern...
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Man Commits Mother to Psych Ward For Compensation Money
Last year Liu Yuzhan, 64, was taken to a hospital 220 kilometers from her home and locked in a psychiatric ward against her will. The men who drove her there were her son and grandson, who had...
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Rural Chinese Can’t Wait to See Hometown Turned Into Megacity
In China, fortunes can change fast — especially when the central government decides to turn your rural town into a megacity. Xiong’an New Area will be established in what are now Xiong, Anxin, and...
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Hebei Housing Market Crackdown Continues
TKTKTK(Header image: A man stands outside a closed real estate agency after a government ban on property sales in counties earmarked as part of Xiong’an New District in Anxin County, Hebei province,...
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Why Welfare Is Still Better Than Work for Some of China’s Poor
In China, sweeping government efforts toward poverty relief go largely unappreciated by the poor. That’s the conclusion of one of the country’s most prestigious field research institutions, the China...
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How Tearing Down Walls Will Open Up China’s Cities
One of the stranger features of residential areas in Chinese cities is that many compounds — known locally as xiaoqu— are hemmed in by high walls, guarded at each entrance by security personnel. From...
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Beijing Bans Misleading Wording in Property Ads
The Beijing government is pulling out all the stops to arrest the city’s rapidly inflating housing prices. The most recent measure: ordering real estate websites to remove some of their favorite...
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How Xiongan Will Burst Beijing's Property Bubble
This is the third article in a series about Xiongan New Area, a planned city in northern Hebei province. Parts one and two can be found here. The recent announcement that the Chinese government plans...
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Disgruntled Tenants Attack Shanghai Police
Shanghai police were in an hours-long standoff with local residents on Thursday afternoon after personnel from a demolition company were attacked while working inside a building that had been...
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One of China’s Poorest Counties Caps Housing Prices
ANHUI, East China — From big, modern cities to the least developed rural areas, local governments are struggling with escalating housing costs. Linquan, China’s most populous county, recently...
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One Senior’s Struggle to Start Her Own Retirement Home
When retired factory worker Liu Xixian saw on TV that the government wanted more privately funded retirement homes, she thought starting one herself would be great way to grow old with her friends....
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