Sanzhao Village, a thousand-year-old village in Qujiang Street Office, Yanta District, Xi’an, Shaanxi, and the largest and last urban village in Xi’an, is facing forced demolition. The local government mobilized thousands of black security guards to enter the village to force the relocation. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Since May 1, Sanzhao Village, a thousand-year-old village in Qujiang Street Office, Yanta District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, and the largest and last urban village in Xi’an, has been facing forced demolition. The local government mobilized thousands of black security guards to enter the village to force the relocation. Due to unreasonable compensation and resettlement, villagers are now jointly resisting the demolition.
Since May 1, videos of thousands of black-clad security guards guarding the entrances of Sanzhao Village have been circulating on the Internet, as the local government mobilized thousands of security guards temporarily recruited to enter the village to build momentum for the forced demolition.
A security guard Mr. Liu said to reporters, they are foreign workers to Xi’an, but also part-time college students, are temporary personnel recruited from nearby villages, apply for this temporary security are to earn some pocket money.
Mr. Liu revealed that there are about three to four thousand people, each issued a set of security uniforms, a daily lunch, wages are settled daily, 150 yuan per person (some villagers said that security guards between 200 yuan and 260 yuan per person per day), from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., the villagers do not allow them to enter the village, they are guarding the entrance to the village, their purpose is to build momentum for the demolition, to deter foreigners to hurry to move away.
Mr. Liu also said that they will not beat the villagers, if a conflict with the villagers, he will run away, he just to earn some money.
The village villagers, Mr. Wang told reporters that thousands of security guards every day at the entrance of the village, villagers also take turns on duty at the entrance of the village, because of the epidemic, so the villagers asked those security guards have nucleic acid test reports before they can enter the village, blocking them from entering the village.
On May 3, three or five young people came from outside the main street of the west gate of the village, one of them with a palladium nail in his hand and the other with a pair of scissors in his hand, strutting around and forcibly pulling down the banner at the entrance of the village. They were followed by nearly 100 special police officers, as well as social workers and college students hired on the Internet, who barged into the village and barged around, creating an atmosphere of fear for the villagers.
Sanzhao Village, a thousand-year-old village in Qujiang Street Office, Yanta District, Xi’an, Shaanxi, and the largest and last urban village in Xi’an, is facing forced demolition. The local government mobilized thousands of black security guards to enter the village to force eviction. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Sanzhao Village, a thousand-year-old village in Qujiang Street Office, Yanta District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, and the largest and last urban village in Xi’an, is facing forced demolition. The local government mobilized thousands of black security guards to enter the village to force eviction. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
Sanzhao Village, a thousand-year-old village in Qujiang Street Office, Yanta District, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, and the largest and last urban village in Xi’an, is facing forced demolition. The local government mobilized thousands of black security guards to enter the village to force eviction. (Courtesy of the interviewee)
By May 8, the situation began to escalate, with the local government mobilizing another large number of city guards, as well as security guards, with several guards standing in front of every store in the village, preventing shopkeepers from doing business as a means of forcing evictions.
“The security guards have surrounded the village, affecting our normal life now and causing a lot of trouble to the villagers and tenants.” Mr. Wang said, “Today (8) forced into the village, and then all the stores are not allowed to sell things, so that people must move out within two days, including some triad-like, came especially special, and now the normal order of life has been maintained.”
According to the reporter, on April 22, more than a hundred village cadres and villagers’ representatives went to Baoji for a meeting to discuss the demolition of Sanzhao Village.
Ms. Zhao, a villager, told reporters that more than a hundred villagers who went to the meeting have not returned so far and could not be contacted, “The village head returned alone. He also brought a lot of police.”
On May 1 at about 5 p.m., the secretary of the Qujiang Street Office went to the village for on-site consultation, Ms. Zhao said the secretary found various reasons to claim that the three trillion villages must be demolished, “he said that the water in our village is waist-deep (when it rains), a phenomenon that the villagers denied at the time; and that we have yellow mud water inside the taps, after he came three times, the deepest impression is that these two, and One is where the collapse, we villagers simply no one knows that there is this thing, does not exist, he came over and said so directly.”
That night, there are unidentified persons in the village to distribute no official seal and official department drop leaflets.
Mr. Wang said that the whole village is currently opposed to the demolition, the villagers for compensation and resettlement can not agree at all, and is in the villagers do not know the case of the village chief himself signed to agree to demolition, so the villagers in a white cloth jointly signed to resist non-compliance with the demolition.
It is reported that the villagers do not agree to the demolition of two reasons, one is the village has 760 acres of reserved land do not know where to go, the villagers asked to solve this problem first; the second is the request for local resettlement, opposed to relocation.
“We do not agree to relocation, but they said that the nearby resettlement, but that place is more than ten kilometers away from our village, all of us in the village for generations lived for so many years, demolition we also agree, at least you have to resettle in situ, we have feelings for this place, suddenly move our villagers to a place ten kilometers away, we must be emotional. ” Ms. Zhao said.
The compensation package is 80 square meters per person, the transition fee of 700 yuan per person, resettlement within three years, if there is no resettlement, the compensation price negotiated at the time for cash replacement, 7,600 yuan per square meter, “we Qujiang house price is 17,000 to 22,000.” Ms. Zhao said.
Ms. Zhao added: “People (neighboring village resettlement) is 90 square feet, we are 80 square feet, people’s transition fee is 1200, we are 750, people are old place resettlement, we are off-site resettlement. It is not planned now, 14 Games (the 14th National Games) before to demolish us, directly to demolish us. In the name of urban village transformation.”
In addition, the villagers are currently two or three floors at home, to rent housing for a living, after the relocation of this source of income will also be interrupted.
The villagers’ resettlement site is located in the area east of the Chest Hospital on Aerospace Avenue, south of West Duling Road, west of Yan Yin Road and north of the tomb of the Ming King of Qin, Zhu Hui.
Mr. Wang said, the resettlement site traffic and location can not be compared with the current three trillion village, surrounded by sewage treatment plant, there is an infectious disease hospital, and the mausoleum there the government will also develop into a tourist area, how to resettle the villagers?
The villagers went to the provincial government’s petition office, Qujiang Street Office and other relevant departments for many days, but to no avail. The villagers said, three trillion village does not belong to the three old conditions, does not belong to the municipal expropriation, does not belong to the shantytown transformation, does not belong to the old village transformation, a street office in the absence of any legal approval of the case has the power to the entire village for demolition?
The reporter has repeatedly called the Qujiang Street Office and Yanta District Government, but there has been no one to answer.
Some villagers got news from the inside that the local government wants to plan the village as a high-end villa area, with prices between 100,000 and 150,000 yuan, and there are already companies eyeing the village, and the Development and Reform Commission is verifying the declaration procedures.
Another adjacent village has been demolished by the villagers said, Yanta District Government all demolition procedures are not compliant, they know the law, is to bully the people can not help them.
Lujiazhai, which belongs to Qujiang Street Office, started to be demolished in 2011, and the villagers have not been resettled so far, they can’t go home not to mention that the houses are invisible (turned into rotten buildings). So for the local government’s demolition villagers have no sense of trust.
According to the information, Sanzhao Village used to be the transportation hub to Chang’an in Lantian and Shangluo area. The village is divided into four gates according to the natural direction, including 15 villagers groups, more than 1,300 farmers, a total of more than 5,000 people, the total area of the village more than 8,200 mu, more than 7,800 mu of arable land, per capita arable land of about 1.5 mu. It is the largest administrative village in Xi’an, and also a famous lantern village in Xi’an, as well as a thousand-year old village.
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