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Governments can legally expropriate land for the public benefit. The State may forcibly evict occupants and extinguish the rights of owners and tenants upon payment of compensation. In many Common Law jurisdictions, this includes expropriation of land for on-sale to a private individual or company. To this extent Chinese and Common Law are the ...
China's Land Reform (1950-1952) was one of the largest examples of land expropriation in world history. In the process, between 200 and 240 million acres of arable land were redistributed to approximately 75 million peasant families. [5]: 8
Land reform progressed unevenly by region [25] and in different time periods. [26] In northern China, which had been governed by Communists since 1935, the peasants were more radical. [25] CCP cadre in these regions often tried to restrain excessive violence from peasants. [25] Land reform was undertaken more quickly and more violently in the ...
Eminent domain [a], also known as land acquisition, [b] compulsory purchase, [c] resumption, [d] resumption/compulsory acquisition, [e] or expropriation [f], is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use.
Land reclamation of Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai, and the Donghai Bridge can be seen in the distance. Since 1949, China has carried out extensive land reclamation projects. It is among the countries which have built the most artificial land; from 1949 to 1990s, the total area of land reclaimed from the sea of China was about 13,000 km 2. [1]
China has upset many countries in the Asia-Pacific region with its release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as to contested parts of India and Russia ...
The construction of the eastern part of the campus was approved in October 2000, with planning starting in November, and land expropriation starting in December. [2] During the planning period, the university launched a conception plan contest with Architecture Journal and a planning contest online, which received 76 planning designs from across the world.
This is a set of revised NPOV locator maps for each of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities of Mainland China. These maps are intended to be as NPOV as possible: all disputed areas are shown and then labeled separately. (The South China Sea islands are however omitted, because they would take up too much space in the infobox.)