Word: quanchun
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...theme park on land their families had farmed for centuries. They criticize the local government and Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau for handing over UNESCO-protected land to theme-park entrepreneurs and ignoring the placement of a huge buddha in an area famed for its tombs. Last week, Huang Quanchun watched in dismay as workers laden with trees marched by her ramshackle house next to the theme park. She and other locals claim that the trees are being planted to cover up evidence of destroyed tombs before high-level visitors examine the site. In the meantime, guards roam the park...
...families have savings accounts. In the past two years 24 households have built solid brick and tile houses to replace their old mud-and-thatch homes, compared with the 28 years before, when only seven such houses were constructed. "All the peasants feel happy," says Chen Quanchun, 37, the brigade's leader. "They work twice as hard as they used to because they know that if they work harder, they can make more money...
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