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Workers lay the foundation for a residential complex around a solitary tomb site in Taiyuan, China's Shanxi province, Dec. 6.
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Workers lay the foundation for a residential complex around a solitary tomb site in Taiyuan, China, Dec. 6.
Jon Woo / Reuters
An ancestral tomb, 33 feet high and about 30 square feet, on the construction site of a building in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, in China on Dec. 6.
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Workers lay the foundation for a residential complex around a solitary tomb site in Taiyuan, China, Dec. 6.
Developers bought a cemetery and paid villagers to relocate the remains of their loved ones. All except one. The grave has not been moved as the family is waiting for an auspicious date to do so and a reason from the developer for choosing this site, according to the owner of the tomb. The developers are now offering to pay nearly $160,000 to have it moved. The building is scheduled to be completed by April 2013, but for now, construction continues around the gravesite. Last week a home in Zhejiang province, that had been sitting in the middle of a newly built highway as the owners held out for more money, was finally demolished.
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Interesting story. Don't they recognize Eminent domain? A Communist country which flood a number of villages to build their Hydro Electric Damn actually working around and offering to pay someone big bucks for this. Got to be more to this story.
Believe half of what you read. They're only telling you half the stories anyway. Their half.
Call me jaded, but these endless Red Chinese cutesy cutesy stories on the great esteem that the Red Chinese Communist government places on personal feelings, personal property and the concerns of the individual as opposed to the puported lesser interests of the state appear more and more to be cartoon pastiches of political disinformation put on by a half-wit propaganda ministry for the consumption of morons in America.
Since when did the Red Chinese government stand aside for personal liberty? Or are they following the extreme regard for individual liberty and freedom exhibited by Mao Tse Dung and his cohort?
I never been to China but isn't it kind of like the East Coast here and very densely populated and available land to build on scarce ? Maybe they are building to accommodate the Living out of necessity not greed. Sometimes you got to do what you got to do if your choices are limited.
this is what the chinese do to honor their dead & not desecrate the final resting place of a citizen. how many people out there-in america-think a "union" contractor would work around a single grave to construct a high-rise apt. bld'g or corporate offices??!!!!
bla bla bla screw the unions
if i ever go to this hotel i refuse to watch tv
Hory Cow!
No tickey no raundry!
No tickey no coffin!
If they were smart they shouldn't have paid them anything !they own all the property around grave site. This would have been a good marketing strategy and they could have charged the family admission fees to visit.
I should send them my copy of Poltergeist.
HARD HATS FOR WHAT? Is the sky going to hit them in the head. OSHA and UNION construction is over reated in a few ways this is a example they are on the ground with no structure or workers above them what is going to hit them on the head? Oh a bird might crap on them...
Why does Grandma's gravestone look so much like a giant smartphone?
Look at the picture; how did they pour concrete under the mound of dirt? Somethings fishy!
Hey, um, I think you guys got the compensation info of $160,000 very, very wrong: