With the rapid industrial and urban development of Mainland China in recent years, protests regarding the protection of land rights triggered by problems such as land acquisition, urban house demolition in rural and urban areas increase constantly, which have gradually become a major social concern in the country. Along with urban development comes a diversification and differentiation in social interests, difference in political views and changes in the economic situation and if the people’s request for political participation cannot be met and conflict of interest cannot be resolved within the existing system, various social forces, organizations and groups, will express and fight for their interests through various means of resistance.
During the speedy development of a socialist market economy in Mainland China, various incidents of social conflict emerge one after another in which those concerning land are particularly prominent. Resistance activities related to the protection of land rights in Mainland China have become the spotlight in the protests held by the Chinese people. The analysis of the protection of land rights and the frequent occurrence of protests related to land rights has become a concern of different classes in society. .
By studying the Longnan Mass Incident (demolished homeowners in Wudu Qu District, Longnan City, GanSu Province in Mainland China appealed to the Longnan Municipal Party Committee, requiring an answer to their future housing and other related problems, after the transfer of the Longnan Administrative Center, triggering massive protests on the protection of land rights), this paper explores a range of resistance activities regarding the protection of land rights as triggered by an increasingly large demand for land, local government officials’ improper land requisition and illegal land expropriation in the course of China’s urbanization and industrialization process.
