What are the difficulties in the renovation of Xian Village in Guangzhou?

Why is the demolition of Xian Village in Guangzhou deadlocked? Most of them support the demolition and reconstruction of the "village in the city" in Guangzhou, but they have a special appeal: "To demolish the village houses, treat the village officials first!" On August 3rd, 20 10, a newspaper in Guangzhou took the lead in publishing a news of that day, which attracted the attention of the whole city: "In order to promote the Asian Games project-the construction of Huangpu Avenue ramp on the north extension line of Xinguang Expressway, Tianhe District organized 5 174 square meters of the north extension line of Xinguang Expressway this morning. During the demolition process, it was violently obstructed by a few people, and the departments of land, urban management and public security at the scene kept the best. After receiving the report from the witnesses at the scene, the reporter of Outlook Oriental Weekly immediately rushed to Guangzhou Xiancun and the demolition site for in-depth investigation. The investigation found that there are many little-known inside stories under the appearance that Xiancun in Tianhe District violently obstructs the demolition of collective property. Xiancun people are not so-called "nail households" or "nail households" by people who don't know the truth. Most of them support the demolition and reconstruction of the "village in the city" in Guangzhou, but they have a special appeal: "To demolish the village houses, the village officials should be treated first! "As it happens. According to our reporter's understanding, in Guangzhou, Xian Village may not be the only place where urban demolition is deadlocked because of the village official problem. The dissatisfaction and complaints of other "villages in the city" to village officials have also intensified recently. Investigating village officials first, and then dealing with problematic village officials, is probably a hurdle for the demolition and reconstruction of villages in Guangzhou. The demolition action against "violent obstruction" is very important for "8? 13 "Xiancun incident, the Propaganda Department of Tianhe District Committee refused to accept an interview with the reporter of Outlook Oriental Weekly on the grounds that the person in charge was absent. After that, the Propaganda Department gave a written reply to our reporter by email. In the reply, it was first made clear that "the demolition operation was carried out according to law". The reply claimed: "On May 20 10, Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. signed a demolition compensation agreement, and Tianhe District Land and Housing Management Branch also paid all the compensation to Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. according to the agreement. According to the demolition compensation agreement, Xiancun Company must dismantle the property and hand it over to the land within five days. However, in the subsequent demolition process, the village company was blocked by some people, and some villagers gathered in the property for a long time, resulting in the inability to demolish the building and the construction of Huangpu Avenue ramp. In order to speed up the construction of Huangpu Avenue ramp on the north extension line of Xinguang Expressway, on August 10, Xiancun Company posted a notice informing the villagers that the property had been expropriated and the money had been compensated, and that it would be demolished in the near future, and asked the villagers to remove the articles and vehicles placed here at 8: 00 am on August 12. On the evening of August 12, Tianhe District carried out the demolition operation according to law. "The reply said:" During the demolition of the collective property on the northeast side of Xiancun in the north extension line of Xinguang Expressway from August 12 to August 13, the land, urban management and demolition personnel at the site were violently obstructed by a few people, resulting in two injuries and three hook machines being damaged. After the alarm, Tianhe District Public Security Bureau dispatched police to the scene to maintain order, and finally demolished the property according to law. "In response to the reply from the Propaganda Department of Tianhe District Committee, the old villagers in Xiancun, who are familiar with the matter, said:" Since they are village collective property, villagers should have the right to know how much compensation Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. will be given by Tianhe District Land and Housing Management Branch, but Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. has been reluctant to disclose the specific amount before, which has caused many villagers to have distrust and resistance, and the responsibility for obstructing demolition cannot be completely pushed to those villagers. "A villager surnamed Xian photographed the main process of forced demolition with his mobile phone. He pointed to the video and explained to our reporter: 12 At about 8 pm, urban management, security and riot police began to gather at Xiancun Primary School. Very orderly, sitting in a row, their voices are very low. At night, the lights are dim. These people only occasionally use a few flashlights to take photos, and some villagers gather in the Xiancun market opposite, and slogans and gongs and drums protest from time to time. Just after 0: 00 on June 5438+03, riot police began to step out of the ranks, and they moved quickly and neatly. The walkie-talkie shouted "for the masses, for the masses" and began to charge the Xiancun market across the road. After two or three times, they were all stoned back by the villagers across the street. At about 3 o'clock, the riot squad members launched another charge from several directions. The hook machine first knocked down a wall from the east of the market, and then knocked down a wall in the north. Then, members of the riot squad crowded in. After the personnel cleared the field, the hook machine was turned on again, and the iron shacks in the market were destroyed piece by piece, which basically ended in the early morning. There is also a saying that villagers obstruct the demolition. 14 in the morning, our reporter came to "8? At the scene of the 13 "incident-Xiancun old market, it was found that hundreds of meters of fences had been demolished, and thousands of square meters of iron sheds and buildings in the market had been razed to the ground, with piles of rubble in a mess. More than a dozen construction workers kept lifting sledgehammers to beat some concrete blocks, and some middle-aged and elderly people picked up steel bars and iron sheets from the broken concrete blocks and transported them to the car to push them away. At this time, the villagers in Xiancun are afraid to go near this market. They all gathered under a big banyan tree at the entrance to the East Village. There is a huge electronic display screen next to the banyan tree, which usually shows the village announcements. At this time, "Notice of Tianhe Branch of Guangzhou Public Security Bureau" is flashing on the screen, publicizing the list of 14 villagers who have been criminally detained for obstructing demolition since 13 night. When they saw "Xian Zhang arrived, male, 1933 was born", the villagers all cried. " A few months before the demolition, these old people sat in the market every day just to get an explanation, and there was no excessive behavior. "The villager Xian Dayong (pseudonym) answered the reporter's question," They just want the village to disclose the detailed accounts of collective finance. "From August 19, 2009, in order to win the benefits of Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. (villagers used to call it" village committee ") to disclose collective assets and collective property, villagers in Xiancun began a year-long complaint, petition, sit-in and procession." They are all defending their rights rationally. In the past, they have never taken radical or violent actions. In the process of appealing to the streets, district governments and municipal governments, the government office, public transportation and social order have not been affected. Their main appeal is to make the village's finances public, so that they can know the assets of their village collectives and how much their village collectives can earn. They think they should have the right to know. "Yan Dayong said Xiancun Industrial Co., Ltd. has not disclosed the detailed accounts of village collective finance. The main leader of the company said that the detailed accounts are' trade secrets' and the villagers have no right to ask. Xian Dayong said indignantly, "The village collective economy is a joint-stock system, and all eligible villagers are shareholders. You should give shareholders a clear explanation, at least give shareholders' representatives a clear explanation. "Xian Dayong said that more and more villagers protested strongly to the streets and districts. In May this year, the company's main leaders took several villagers' representatives around the city, sat on the bus and pointed out that this was a project invested by the company and a property that the company cooperated with foreign parties. But when asked about the specific revenue and expenditure, the company leaders were silent. "The attitude of the company in handling things has made many villagers even more angry." Xian Dayong said, "This made more villagers begin to doubt and lose confidence. Some villagers couldn't bear it, and kept going to the market to sit in and obstruct the construction. They were completely cornered before they made this decision, hoping to put pressure on municipal projects, let the municipal government manage these village officials and make the books public. " Why do many declining villagers in Xiancun, Diamond Village, especially the elderly who are over 500 years old, insist on making the detailed accounts of collective finance public? According to our reporter's investigation, there is another reason. In mid-2009, many "villages in the city" in Guangzhou were reported to be demolished. In Xiancun, a group of personnel sent by relevant departments began to go deep into the village houses to check the situation and measure the areas of houses, balconies and floating platforms. "It has existed for a long time. It seems that Guangzhou is going to be real this time! " The villagers whispered in their hearts and suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of crisis. The villagers in Xiancun are generally divided into three categories: one is to go out to work or do business, and these people have high incomes and a down-to-earth life; The other is to rent your own vacant house. These people have a stable income and a comfortable life. The third category is the elderly or temporary workers, who lack stable work income and basically rely on the shares of the village collective to pay dividends. "The demolition of villages in cities has the greatest psychological impact on the third kind of people". A retired village cadre analyzed. During that time, the villager Lao Lu didn't sleep well for several days. As he is nearly 60 years old, he can't do much work and has no empty house to rent. For many years, the life of a young and old family depended on the dividends in the village. However, when I think about dividends, I can't help but sigh-although he is the "top stock" of Xiancun (more than 40 shares belong to villagers with more shares), the dividend per share has not changed for 10 years. 300 yuan's shares can only receive dividends of 12000 yuan a year, plus 5 shares of his children (10). Villagers petitioned to expose village officials suspected of violating laws and crimes and were retaliated. 20 1 1: 20 Xinhua News Agency-Looking at Oriental Weekly In fact, there are quite a few families like Lao Lu in Xiancun. They don't live a life of "renting a husband" and "renting a wife" as imagined by the outside world, and their daily expenses basically depend on the village. Faced with the demolition of "villages in cities", they have to pin their hopes on the growth of village collective economy and welfare distribution. This is the real reason why the old villagers are so concerned about the village collective economy, and it is also the purpose of the village collective financial account. The veteran cadre further explained that, of course, other villagers are also concerned about the development of the village collective economy, after all, this is also related to their share dividends. "The crux of the matter is that the collective economy of Xiancun has developed for so many years and has not played a geographical advantage. Whether there are human factors here will not be discussed for the time being, but look at the public data of this village. 1995 The total assets of Xiancun collective at the time of share reform was 237.48 million yuan, and in 2009 it was 12.365. The veteran cadre objectively analyzed, "1995 is the period of the fastest economic development and the fastest land price appreciation in Tianhe District and Zhujiang New Town of Xiancun. Xian Village has many plots available for development, and has been cooperating with surrounding real estate and property projects, such as commerce and service industries. However, the appreciation rate of collective assets in Xiancun is not very fast, which will naturally make the outside world embarrassed. The veteran cadres recalled the glory of Xian Village when it was called "the richest village in Guangdong". He said that Xiancun was "rich" because of the past "halo"-in the 1980s, when it entered the period of reform and opening up, Xiancun implemented the household contract responsibility system and developed diversified businesses, especially the pig industry. After entering the 1990s, due to the rapid eastward expansion of Guangzhou, all cultivated land in Xiancun was expropriated by the end of 1994, and Xiancun people "washed their feet and went to the fields" to develop township industries, some went out to work, and some built new houses for rent. Large-scale housing construction in this village began in the early 1990s. At that time, in order to solve the housing problem of villagers, the village filled some fish ponds as homesteads and granted them to members to build houses. By 2007, the number of private houses in the village had increased from 667 60 years ago to 2 152. Houses built by villagers range from 4 floors to 7 floors. Because of the small height and spacing, the streets are narrow, which is called "first sight" and "handshake building" The traditional rural residential structure built by villagers is in contrast with the surrounding modern high-rise buildings, becoming a typical "village in the city". Let out the small building built by the villagers when it is empty. Because of the low rent and proximity to the workplace, urban white-collar workers and working-class people choose to rent houses here, so the rental income of houses has become an important source of income for villagers in Xiancun. "Xian Village is" rich "because of its geographical aura-it is located on the central axis of Guangzhou New Town and in the golden section of Zhujiang New Town in Guangzhou CBD. The commercial, service and other real estate and property projects jointly developed with the village are well-known in the eyes of the public, such as Haitao Hotel, Chundu Hotel, Vega Plaza, Fengxing Plaza, Poly Xinyu, Shangdong Meiyu and so on. The retired veteran cadres sighed with emotion, "Unfortunately, this' Diamond Village' is now fading its dazzling aura. Taking villagers' share dividends as an example, Xiancun has been distanced by the surrounding Shipai, Yangji, Tancun and He Lin, ranking second from the bottom in Tianhe District! "A group of village officials who are no longer trusted by the villagers." If there is a leading group of village collective economy that can reassure everyone and the dividend of village collective economy can guarantee the villagers, then the problem of reconstruction and demolition of villages in the city is not big. After all, the renovation and demolition will help villagers improve their living environment and conditions in the future. "Several villagers in Xiancun expressed this view to our reporter in unison. However, in Xian village, the prerequisite for villagers to support the renovation and demolition does not seem to exist. Over the years, quite a few villagers have expressed dissatisfaction with the behavior of village officials. Through investigation, interviews and evidence collection, they formed one material after another accusing village officials of violating laws and regulations, and reported and petitioned higher authorities. "This is the third climax of villagers' petition, especially this one, which has the longest duration and the most intense action. "Xian Hayes (pseudonym) recalled that during the period of 1994, because many villagers in Xian Village went to Tianhe District Government to petition and complain about the financial problems of the village committee, the relevant departments in the district formed an investigation team to prepare to go to Xian Village to audit the accounts. At this time, the financial director Lu Huancheng suddenly disappeared. The next night, the village Committee's finance office caught fire and the indoor financial books were destroyed. " The second petition climax was in July-August, 2000. Due to the land requisition of Guangzhou Land Development Center, Huangpu Avenue, Jinsui Road and Liede Road involve 208 villagers' houses in Xian Village and need to be demolished. Some villagers began to petition, reflecting the financial problems of the village Committee. The higher authorities sent an investigation team, but there was no result. Xian Hayes said that since last August 19, this is the third climax of the villagers' "petition" in Xian Village. In fact, this appeal is mainly to let the village disclose its finances and the personal assets of village officials. "What village officials are unwilling to do is these most basic requirements. How can we trust these village officials? ! "Xian also reported with photos as evidence: On the evening of July 8 this year 1 1, dozens of villagers in Xian Village who petitioned were surrounded by a large number of unidentified people on Jixiang Road when they walked out of the gate of Guangzhou Municipal Government. Xian also reflected that villagers who petitioned in Xiancun were often retaliated and intimidated, and some villagers were called to "ask questions" by the police station within a few days of petitioning; Lu Huabu, a villager in Xian village and a former deputy to the provincial people's congress, took the lead in exposing and exposing village officials suspected of committing crimes many times, and his relatives were retaliated. In June, 2000, during the audit of Xian Village by the municipal and district working groups, Lu Huabu's nephew was injured by three or four unidentified people on his way home. Lu Bu has been dead for more than seven years. Before he died, he said to his family and villagers, "My only regret and heartache is that those unscrupulous village officials are still at large. I hope that after my death, when unscrupulous village officials are punished by law, don't forget to burn incense on my grave and let my soul rest in peace! " After that, he died The villagers said that his eyes were still open when he died. On August 7th, 2009, a villager's representative sued seven members of the village committee, including the secretary and deputy secretary of the Party branch, on behalf of more than 3,000 villagers with voting rights in Xian Village through the email address of the director of Guangzhou Bureau of Letters and Calls, demanding that they be removed from their posts according to law, and investigating the criminal facts of their alleged occupation. This report reflects that the village party secretary is crony, and more than 90% of the leaders or supervisors of village committees and related enterprises are relatives of this secretary. The so-called "village committee meeting", "party branch meeting" and "shareholders meeting" held in Xiancun are essentially family meetings of village party branch secretaries. The report also lists the cooperation projects between Xiancun and surrounding areas in real estate, commerce and service industries. One is suspected of contracting to relatives or friends of village officials at a very low price, and then subletting at a market price or a high price to make a profit; The other is that the relatives or friends of village officials monopolize the contracting rights and contracting rights of various projects in Xiancun, and raise prices for personal gain. "Our interests are not guaranteed, and we will not sign the demolition compensation and resettlement agreement! "A villager who asked not to be named complained to our reporter that a company was registered in the village in March this year with a registered capital of only 500,000 yuan and only one shareholder. It is a wholly-owned limited liability company with village officials as legal persons. The villager also reflected that the village official was a well-known unfilial son in the village, and his old father was ill, leaving him hanging on the balcony at home. Many villagers know his evil deeds. Why should such a village official and such a company sign a resettlement agreement with more than 900 villagers in our village/kloc-0? In case something goes wrong with this village official or this company, who will protect our interests three and a half years after moving out? For such a long time, so many villagers have reflected the problems of village officials. Why are these village officials still standing like "unlucky"? An example of an insider reporting may answer this question. He said that 1999 put into use in Xiancun farmers' market, there were 550 shops, but only 190 was open for rent, and all the shops with bad locations were "booked" in advance. Due to the dissatisfaction of many people in party member, village officials had to open their shops in order to temporarily irritate the people. Only then did people know. Another insider also reported that three 8-storey houses were built on the bustling pedestrian street in Xian Village, claiming to be the most beautiful houses on this street. In addition to the two houses left by the village officials for themselves and their "brothers", one was left to the district leaders at that time. According to the planning and deployment of Guangzhou, before the Asian Games this year, Guangzhou will complete the demolition of nine urban villages, namely Liede, Xiancun, He Lin, Yangji, Pazhou, Xiaoxintang, Tangxia (Baiyun), Xiaogang and Sanyuanli. Ding Qiang, director of Guangzhou Land Center and executive deputy director of the "Three Old" Transformation Office, said in an interview with the media at the beginning of this year that whether the "Three Old" transformation, especially the old city contiguous transformation, can be smoothly promoted depends on the residents' willingness to "transform". According to the Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation of "Three Old Houses" issued by Guangzhou this year, the transformation of the old city needs two rounds of prior consultation: the first round mainly seeks the wishes of residents in the transformation area, and the number of households who agree to the transformation must reach more than 90% before the transformation can be started; The second round is consulting compensation and resettlement plan. Within the specified time, the number of residents who have signed relevant agreements must reach more than two thirds before the specific demolition can be implemented. If the agreed number of households does not reach the specified proportion, the renovation plan will be put on hold temporarily. In Xiancun, whether the demolition and reconstruction plan can be implemented smoothly does not depend on the wishes of village officials or upper-level government officials, but on the villagers' trust in the credibility of the government. If village officials really have problems and are not investigated, it will undoubtedly bring the demolition and reconstruction to a deadlock.