DAY8:houses buring in fire-where is tomorrow?

domestic influence: 2.5 controversy rank: 2.5 genre: urban,social key word: fire

240 uniformed service men marched to several shanties, expelled about 70 residents out, then lit a fire that soon engulfed all the houses. Most residents could do nothing but stared at the burning houses silently.

This is not a live report form frontline of war, it's just an action launched by authority in Shenzhen to dismantle the illegal constructions. These house were called ‘village in city’, a notable atmosphere in many China city. In urbanization, some residents can't afford the surging price of housing, and therefore built some houses themselves in margin of city. Actually, they were just sheds supported by bamboo sticks and covered by iron sheets.

Recently, municipal authority launched a campaign to beautify the city, and these illegal houses were the first targets. To accelerate the process, they thought such an idea to burn down the shanties in a fire. During the whole process, some residents rushed into burning houses for their properties left. Some children brought up in there watched the whole destruction of former homeland and could do nothing.