Liu Zhigeng, Secretary of the Dongguan municipal Party committee, said that it is necessary to "endure the temporary labor pains, endure the slowdown of the temporary speed, endure the reduction of temporary income and bear the criticism of the society", and promote the pformation of Dongguan'...
If the villages wanted to repurpose rural land into industrial land, the requirement stipulated the land must first be designated as urban land, owned by the state. This meant that the devel- opment rights for rural land still belonged to the state and its agents, the city governments. ...