When Police Rule the City: Part 1/4
Armed Police Pose Threat to Private Residential Buildings

On December 1, police pointed guns at residential buildings at The Metropolis, a private housing estate. The police also made an announcement through a loudspeaker, asking civilians not to "do anything naive".

Source: CNews #Dec1
#PrivateProperty #PoliceState

#ChineseCommunistParty
Guangdong province grants rights of angary to local governments to take private properties for use in epidemic

PRC's Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress called for an emergency meeting, and immediately authorised the municipal governments of Guanagzhou and Shenzhen to, when deemed necessary, take housing, facilities, goods, etc., for use in emergency epidemic responses according to laws.

This is the first time since the Open Reform of China and also since the Property Rights Laws of 2007 that the government was granted the rights of angary.

The Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress called for an emergency meeting in the morning, and passed Standing Committee of Guangdong People’s Congress on Decisions about Controlling the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic according to Full Force of Laws.

Municipal and district governments, as well as command centres of works related to controlling the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic, are empowered to, according to the needs of controlling the epidemic, implement emergency administrative measures or announce decisions on medical and public health, capital security, transportations, market management, wild life management, and other areas.

They can temporarily take housing units or private houses, venues, transportation vehicles, and related facilities, for use in epidemic control. They can also compel relevant firms and organisations to provide epidemic control goods and commodities of life.

Source: RTHK #Feb11
#Angary #PrivateProperty #WuhanPneumonia

#Rumour

Cheng Du Vanke applied to resume operation but...

A: My friend just told me that Cheng Du Vanke has made an application with the Chengdu government to resume operation and stressed that they have prepared 20,000 face masks to ensure safety of the employees. However, the Chengdu government rejected Vanke’s application and levied their 20,000 face masks 😂 😂 😂

B: This is a sad story but I would first enjoy a good laugh.

Source: Douban, 13 Feb 2020

#Chengdu #Levy #Communism #PrivateProperty

#Newspaper

In Shanxi more than 200 private properties confiscated by the government

Property owners: the ownership certificate clearly showed that these were privately owned.
Lawyer: The county government may have broken the law.

(8 Sep) "Since we have the ownership certificates, they just came to lock our properties by force and robbed us." Recently, 30 or more private houses and guesthouses were force to close down and seized by the police in Pingyao city in the Shanxi province, this caused strong oppositions among residents. Some were forcefully dragged out from their houses.

The Pingyao city government sent out notice to the residents and owners of more than 200 private properties, telling them that under socialism, it was absolutely necessary and correct to renovate private properties, and therefore the government was about to confiscate theirs, and was giving them half of a month to relocate.
The ownership dispute on ancestral homes began in 1958. It was the time of transforming to socialism and the government used the idea of "government as agent managing and renting houses on behalf of people' to rent out properties which were idle and vacant. Until the opening up of the country in the 80s, the owners re-obtained what belonged to them and got ownership certificates.
And now, the government voided the certificates.

An owner, whose certificate was void, claimed that he/she only redeemed the family siheyuan (traditional four building courtyard houses), "We paid 162 thousands and bought 18 rooms. I have bought the ownership of them back. Those properties are a private ones. This is clearly written in black and white. Since it is claimed that this is a lawful society, this country should help to safeguard our private property and rights, and this Pingyao governmemt has violated both the party's policy and the law.”

Lawyers also doubted that the county government may have broken the law by confiscating and voiding the ownership certificates without paying any compensation.

The historical Pingyao county has over 2700 years of history and mainly relies on tourism as major source of income. The citizens estimates that the properties confiscated value over 10M on the market.

#PingyaoTheHistoricalTown
#Nationalised
#Socalism
#ICableChinaNews

Source: i-Cable China News
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#PrivateProperty #China #Pingyao