Sound Bites

"Land policies of many local governments are, in essence, designed to pull down farmers' houses."

Chen Xiwen, CPPCC member and deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said local governments don't dare use farmland for construction projects but hardly hesitate to sell off the land where farmers have their homes. He quoted a senior expert as saying that there is no other place in the world where the number of villages is shrinking so fast.

"It has taken me six years to prepare a proposal to ban many 'health foods' that claim to cure men's sexual disability, but in fact harm the body."