'Sleepers town' not welcome in Tongzhou
By Meng Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2010-04-08 07:52
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Residents of Xihaizi town in Tongzhou sell honeycomb briquets of coal next to the road. The area will be redeveloped soon. Wang Heng / for China Daily |
Tongzhou new town vetoed the construction of many residential buildings in its core area in an effort to avoid the moniker "sleepers' town", a recent conference on the area's development has revealed.
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