Guanshanhu

The local government had ordered the demolition of 51 illegal structures to pave the way for redevelopment in the city’s Guanshanhu District. Officials had initially denied reports that students had been recruited to bulk up security numbers for the Oct. 12 demolition. After their involvement was confirmed, three local officials were dismissed, including Liu Guangxiang, head of the Guanshanhu district’s Communist Party politics and law committee who also ran the local demolition office, and two officials with the district city management, or chengguan, bureau, Yu Jing and Wang Chunyan, according to The Beijing News, a commercial newspaper.

2013 October 18, Austin Ramzy, “Students in Southwest China Recruited to Assist Forced Demolition”, in The New York Times (Sinosphere section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022