They scattered to the winds when the house was torn down, and the district housing agency offered Ma compensation (equivalent to about $3,800 at the time).

当院落被拆除时，住户们消失在人海中，地方房管部门给马支付了补偿（大约相当于当时的3800美元）。

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Ma Lin packed her laptop and textbooks and walked to a housing block near her university. She knocked at the door of an apartment which looked like any other.

马琳(音译)背上手提电脑和课本，朝所读大学旁的一个住宅区走去。她来到了一间与其他房间并无两样的普通公寓门前，敲了敲门。

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Senior Statistician Ma Xiaoming said the sales price decrease indicates that, after arduous and unremitting efforts, the momentum of housing prices in general have been effectively curbed, and achieved remarkable results in the real estate regulation.

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