60

Percent of group petitions

to the government are related to land disputes, and 4 million disputes each year involve demolition, Liu Shouying, a researcher at the State Council's Development Research Center, said in a report in China Comment magazine. The land system must be reformed to transform the traditional economic development mode, which depends on the extensive supply of land for construction, he said.

(China Daily USA 10/16/2013 page3)