Developer told opposing govt 'evil'

BEIJING - A district Party chief in Chongqing municipality ordered a real estate developer to stop a project by threatening to crack down on the developer as if it were a gang, according to a voice recording released on Friday.

"Do you know the reason Chongqing cracked down on organized gangs? Do you know what is evil? Opposing the government is evil," Party secretary of Jiangjin district, Wang Yinfeng, can be heard telling the developer at the developer's office on Aug 5.

In the recording, uploaded on the Internet, Wang asked the developer to stop a residential project and offered another piece of land for the project because he believed the building - at a planned 108 meters - would dwarf the government's office building behind it, block its view and ruin its feng shui.