The story about the lone house is true!

Had read about this before but it is not a urban legend that I thought it was! After going to many cities and seeing the landscape being a monotone of malls and hotels in prime strips of land; city locals moving out into the suburbs - taking over four hours a day in transportation like Beijing. It is great to witness China government finally passing new property laws to protect and decrease incidents of shortchanging the ordinary people against developers and money-grubbing city officials.

Yang and Wu have asked the developers to give them a new house and shop in the same location and of the size within the new complex. The developers refused, saying they would only compensate them in cash, or relocate them.The couple insisted that their current house-shop is at the center of the prime commercial district and that relocating them to any other place would represent a huge loss. "I never asked for too much, I was never stubborn," said Wu Ping to journalists outside her holdout house on Thursday. Although it would be difficult to obtain a new house with exactly the same location or size, the family has the right - according to Chongqing's regulations - to get a new house within the current community, instead of being relocated at a distance.