Starting yet another series about knowing China better.
Q: What makes Chinese Communist Party so powerful?
A: Chinese property laws.
- In China government owns all the land.
- One can never buy land in China.
- One can buy only the land using rights.
- So one has no ownership but only the right to use the land.
- Even the right to use the land is temporary.
- The farmers only have tilling rights.
- On getting the right to use the land from the government for residential purposes, one has to build within two years otherwise the land returns to the government.
- Chinese government has no land acquisition problems because it already owns all the land.
- There is no delays in infrastructure development due to delays related to land acquisition.
- Cited reasons for non-privation of land ownership are:
- Avoid formation of class of landlords.
- Avoid land trades and land acquisitions by landlords.
- Avoid children inheriting land from their parents without working for it.
- Avoid people making profit from land without working.
Comments and value additions are most welcome
No wonder they are so powerful.
Domestically they are and want to apply the same template to the world