Seed Daily via AFP: Farmers' rights to their land "must not be violated", China's premier told parliament on Monday, a day after elections in a village that became a symbol of resistance against official land grabs.Government seizures of land -- a major source of discontent in China -- sparked a rare revolt in December in the southern village of Wukan, where residents said Communist officials had been seizing their land for decades.
In a speech to mark the opening of China's National People's Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao said farmers' rights must be protected.
"Farmers' rights to the land they contract to work on, to the land on which their houses sit, and to proceeds from collective undertakings, are property rights conferred by law, and these rights must not be violated by anyone," he said.
Land grabs have become an explosive issue in China as officials seeking to cash in on a property boom increasingly force farmers off their land to make way for construction -- an issue repeatedly condemned by Wen...
A sheep farm in northern China, shot by ILRI/Stevie Mann, Wikimedia Commons via Flickr, under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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