The party secretary says he wants to turn the "city village" of Huaxi into a Shangri-la.

他表示自己想把华西村建设成香格里拉。

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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.

塔洼村拍卖主要的幕后推手是一位叫张玉旺(Zhang Yuwang)的村支书，他宣称自己刚好拥有那片土地的大部分使用权。

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Mr. Wu, who died of lung cancer at age 84 on Monday, responded to China's market overhauls in the early 1980s with a politically savvy strategy to charge up the economy of Huaxi, the village in eastern Jiangsu province that he headed as Communist Party secretary.

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So did Wang Shijun, a former village party secretary and son of farmers who still lived in the family cave.

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