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"The Zhaoxiang township mayor said, 'We can't protect you if the district government wants to take the land back for other usage, ' " he said.
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Tens of millions of people in rural areas have been pushed off their land to make way for development (they do not own the land itself, but they do have usage rights).
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The prime mover behind Tawa's auction is a village party secretary, Zhang Yuwang, who happens to own, he claims, the usage rights to most of the land in question.
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For the environment this means far less air emissions, far less water usage and disposal needs, and far less land impacted to produce a similar amount of oil and natural gas.
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