死 不 搬!
Chinese couple refuses to move despite apartment building that
lies in middle of new roadway
資料提供者 : Sidddney Chan
23 November 2012
浙江一戶死都不肯搬 公路只好繞道而行.
NOT LEAVING! Chinese couple refuses to move despite
apartment building that lies in middle of new roadway
New
private ownership laws give the couple the right to stay put unless they feel
they’ve been compensated enough to move – and they don’t.
A car drives by a house in the middle of a newly built road in Wenling, Zhejiang province,
Talk about prime real estate.
A
half-demolished apartment building now stands smack dab in the middle of a new
roadway thanks to a Chinese couple that refused to move.
Luo Baogen and his wife balked at
relocating from their home in the city of Wenling,
Zhejiang province, eastern China, because they believed the government did not
offer them enough compensation, China Daily reported.
Their neighbors
are all gone, but many of the unoccupied rooms are still intact to make sure
that the property is safe for the couple to live in.
The road paved
through the Xiazhangyang village is not yet open.
The elderly couple refused to sign an agreement to allow their
house to be demolished, arguing that the compensation offered is not enough to
cover rebuilding costs.
The
dilapidated building, however, proves to be quite a bizarre sight for the
select motorists who have been given a chance to drive around the structure.
Private
ownership laws have tightened in the People’s Republic of China in recent
years.
It’s
illegal to raze a property without the owner’s prior consent.
Those who
refuse to leave are dubbed “Nail Householders,” referring to a nail that is
nearly impossible to remove from wood.
Luo Baogen looks down from his house, the
only building left standing on a road which is paved through their village.
Baogen
and his wife are not the first couple to thwart public construction by refusing
to move.
Hong Chunqin, 75, and her husband Kung first accepted about
$10,000 to move from their home in Taizhou, Zhejiang
province, eastern China, early this year.
They
later backtracked, forcing developers to build a road around their property.