Tengchong: Ground Zero for Yunnan Land Grab

Virtually every major community in China has seen struggles over land for urban expansion that end in overnight success for real estate developers, while village farmers get the short end of the stick.

Now the experience is being repeated in a picturesque corner of southwest China, in the ancient city of Tengchong in Yunnan Province, despite intervention by the central government's Ministry of Land Resources (MLR) and charges that a local developer and town leaders broke the law.