Tearing down the old houses in Shanghai

These last five years you have for sure seen those big signs in Shanghai saying that this house is going to be teared down. They are everywhere in those big cities, Shanghai, Beijing, etc.

My hall friend from Beijing told me today that their house is going to be teared down, which means that her family is getting only about 100000 RMB, maybe not even that much, for a new place called home. They of course knew that with only 100000 RMB there is no possibility to find an apartment to buy in Beijing. So they refused to move out.

But the company that was following the orders from the Chinese government to tear those houses down got really mad because her family refused to move out. So they hired these liu mangs (thugs) to sabotage their house, for an example they breaked the glasses, screamed outside, they even put excrement (poo poo) on the house's door.

Luckily, my hall friend's family knew someone who helped them out, but the neighbours weren't as lucky. As they also refused to move out from their house, the company had even ordered people who were stalking the neighbours. One got beaten with a metal stick so he almost died.

Now you might wonder how this could have happened? I seriously don't know, it's just sick how they can manage to do things like this. Why not call the police? Because they have no proof that it happened, it was dark, no witnesses and so on.

Sometimes China indeed sucks big time!