An elderly couple refused to leave despite plans for the road a railway station to be built directly where the building stands
Not
enough to move: The couple refused to move because they believed the
relocation compensation offered by the government was not enough
Room
with a view: Luo Baogen looks out on the new road which is yet to be
officially opened from the apartment building where all his neighbours
moved out
Property
owners in China that refuse to move to make way for development are
known as 'Nail Householders' referring to a stubborn nail that is not
easy to remove from a piece of old wood and cannot be pulled out with a
hammer.
Earlier
this year, Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung, who live in the two
dilapidated buildings with their two sons, had initially agreed to sell
the property in Taizhou, in Zhejiang province and accepted £8,000 in
compensation.
But then she changed her mind and refunded the money once work on the road had started.
Isolated: Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun's home stands on a small parcel of land amid the growing skyscrapers
Earlier
this year, Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun dared to stand in the way of
a local property developer in Zaozhuang, in the Shandong province.
As
a result, the resolute couple, both in their 60s, have been left
stranded on their tiny spot of land, while all around them the ground is
dug up and skyscrapers erected.
The
distraught pair were regularly threatened by gangsters and have had to
fend over a number of attempts to illegally demolish their ramshackle
home.
They
were cut off from utilities in 2009 when a local developer started the
enormous earthworks involved in building dozens of high-rise residential
buildings in the area.
Refuse
to move: Another family initially agreed to sell the property in
Taizhou but changed their minds once work on the road had started
Stranded:
The couple were left without running water and electricity ground after
real estate developers dug out the ground around it
Cannot
demolish: During the Communist era, private ownership of property was
abolished but now the laws have been tightened up and it is illegal to
demolish property by force without an agreement
In
another case, one family among 280 others at the site of a six storey
shopping mall being built in Chongqing refused to leave their home for
two years.
Developers
cut their power and water, and excavated a 10-meter deep pit around
their home, which their family had inhabited for three generations.
The
owners broke into the construction site, reoccupied it, and flew a
Chinese flag on top and then Yang Wu, a local martial arts champion,
used nunchakus to make a staircase to the house and threatened to beat
any authorities who attempted to evict him.
The owners turned down an offer of £300,000 but eventually settled with the developers in 2007.
And here are some more bizarre building projects from China...
High
and dry: A furious family took legal action against property developers
in Mianyang, south west China, last year after they demolished every
staircase in their seven-storey apartment block in a bizarre bid to make
them vacate their top-floor flat so they could build a factory
(pictured, top, with the flower boxes and awnings)
That's
prime retail estate! With space at premium in the densely populated
city of Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan Province, homeowners decided to
build these villas on the roof of the Jiutian International Plaza
shopping centre, which is home to one of most famous wholesale markets
for shoes in the region
Architectural
triumph or just plain pants? It has been trumpeted as 'a dramatic,
iconic gateway' to the East that makes the Arc de Triomphe look like a
mere ornament, but critics of he £445m Gate of the East in Suzhou,
China, have likened the structure to a giant pair of long johns
Ee
bah gum! Majestic, yes. But the gloss was taken off ever so slightly
when Beijing's new Phoenix International Media Centre (above) was
compared by some observers earlier this year to a huge Yorkshire
pudding. The building boasts 65,000sqm of floor space for offices,
restaurants and the headquarters of China's Phoenix TV
The
world's silliest supertower? Towering 328 metres (1,067ft) above the
ground, this skyscraper in Huaxi, Jiangsu province, dwarf's everything
in its path. It is 18 metres taller than the Shard in London and its
closest rival is 600 miles away in Beijing. But that's because it was
built in a village of 2,000 FARMERS
A
touch out of place, perhaps? Near the rice paddies, groves of yellow
bamboo and the homes of tens of millions of dirt-poor migrant workers
lies this bizarre replica of an Alpine village in the southern Chinese
province of Guangdong. Unsurprisingly, sales were non-existent when it
opened earlier this year
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