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March 13, 20113 Comments

Nanjing residents nostalgic for pre-Communist days as government uproots trees

Nanjing Municipal Government is unleashing an offensive to the city’s thousands of 70-year-old trees for subway construction. The government promised to transplant them to somewhere else. However, furious citizens distrust the government. They get up a petition and call for a protest online. The protest effort has been obstructed by China’s largest social networking site [...]

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