...and continues to have consequences:
Since July, hundreds of residents of Taishi, on the southern fringe of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, have protested the seizure of their fields for real estate, claiming that profits from land sales mostly end up in the pockets of local officials.
Meanwhile, in Shanghai:
In one protest, middle-aged residents invoked rebellious slogans from their youth during the Cultural Revolution, as they denounced summary evictions to make way for high-rise developers and demanded fair compensation.
And they're not the only ones:
On the evidence, it would seem the authorities are most concerned about what Zhou Yongkang, the public security minister, told Reuters last month were the 74,000 mass incidents, or demonstrations and riots, that occurred in 2004, an increase from 58,000 the year before, and only 10,000 a decade ago.
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