Welcome to your new home, workers: Chinese villagers moved into prison-like new town
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 23, 2013 0:56
Stretching as far as the eye can see in rows upon rows of arrow-straight uniformity, this development conjures images of a concrete slum or a prison block rather than a plush new housing estate.
They are among more than 1,000 grey houses, each spaced just a few feet apart, that have been built in Lingshui County in the Hainan Province of China.
But their monochrome appearance hasn’t put off the locals.
Around 3,500 villagers have started to move into 1,029 new apartments, each of which measures 253 square metres, over the last few weeks after construction of Dadun Village started in October 2010.
In 2011, a Chinese government think tank warned that the country’s real estate bubble is getting worse, with property prices in major cities overvalued by as much as 70 per cent.
Lingshui is one of six autonomous counties in Hainan and has a population of around 350,000.
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