Word: yuansheng
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...concluded that the city had transferred riverfront land to a developer for half its real value. The giveaway was greased, Huang says, by gifts from the contractor to officials. He ordered 33 of them to return their gifts and halted construction. The company that won the riverfront-development contract, Yuansheng Real Estate Corp., denies all wrongdoing and says Huang ordered the detention of a company official for nearly a year without charge...
...government's rebuttal hints that Huang himself "violated rules of honest governance" but provides no details. "He ran the town like a king, with no regard for the law," says Zhou Hongwen, the vice chairman of Yuansheng Real Estate Corp. But back in Lianjiang, residents say they glued posters supporting Huang on the wall of Party headquarters. They were removed. "Eight people lived in my mother's house, and now where will they go?" asks one woman living near a Christian church, also slated for destruction. "Officials are stuffing themselves on our rice, and we're going hungry...
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