"It is normal for real estate developers to take a fancy to the commercial value of this land," Lin Zhengqiu said. "What is worrying is that in the value standards of the management department, it is important to sell land or protect cultural relics, which will ultimately determine whether ancient civilization gives way to modern construction or modern construction gives way to ancient civilization."
"The key lies in what the government's function is, whether it sells land to make money or represents the public interest," Zhou Fuduo said.
In fact, in the upsurge of real estate development in China's major cities, urban development and cultural relics protection have repeatedly clashed, but in the face of the interests of land and money, those truly priceless treasures are hard to see the light of day.