Deep roots

In recent years the sight of historic neighbourhoods, their houses often a century or more old, reduced to rubble to make way for grim new structures has been tragically common in Chinese cities. Officials have often appeared to care little about the architecture they destroy and the communities they scatter. Oddly, however, they have just as often made strenuous efforts to preserve one beloved feature of the urban landscape: ancient trees http://econ.st/1c7X9yX

Deep roots

RECENT years the sight of historic neighbourhoods, their houses often a century or more old, reduced to rubble to make way for grim new...

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