Bricked-up doorways, crumbling facades and a small group of defiant locals: one of Shanghai's oldest neighbourhoods is barely clinging to life as the city presses ahead with demolition and redevelopment plans.
Built around the site of a Confucian temple, the mostly two- and three-storey buildings of stone and wood are an anachronism at the heart of Shanghai's gleaming commercial district.Thousands of residents — a mix of old Shanghai families and migrant workers drawn to the low rent — were ordered to leave their homes at the end of 2017, though some have clung to the ageing buildings for years after the deadline.
"This piece of land was bought by my grandfather," said Yang, whose family has lived in the area since before the Communist Party took power in 1949.
Meanwhile here in Australia counsils and developers are just working together, very hard, in the best interests of simple people
So which CCP controlled media outlet recived Australian tax $'s as payment for this titbit? irrelevant domestic news from China.