Amend law to prevent forced demolitions

But in some developed countries such as Canada, the government expropriates homes and land only to build public facilities such as roads, subway lines and government buildings. But in China, the legal concept of "public good" is so wide that it encourages local governments to expropriate land and buildings and offer them to private parties to build apartment or office buildings, shopping malls and other structures from which they can make huge profits.

This is too wide a concept of eminent domain or "public good". It gives open invitation to local officials to abuse the rights of ordinary people by expropriating their homes or land to satiate the hunger for profit of developers and other realty-related businesspeople.

By acquiring land and buildings, the officials may be seeking to increase local GDP. Or, corruption may be prompting them to help money-hungry real estate companies evict homeowners. In both the cases, it's ordinary people who suffer.