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In Beijing, there are many small communities or neighborhoods called hou tong. They were built long ago in traditional stone and brick and housed many families. I thought they were beautiful, but they were being razed to make room for new high rises and to make the city more modern looking for the influx of tourism during the coming olympic games (among other reasons). I asked repeatedly where the government planned to relocate the many people who lived in all the hou tong throughout the city and never got a satisfactory answer...
I thought that sort of thing could never happen here...
What an eye-opener.
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Believe nothing, even if I tell it to you, unless it meets with your own good common sense and experience. - Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
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