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In Caijiawu, 28 km from central Beijing, the village committee recently signed 30-year household responsibility contracts with residents.
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The stand-off led to the villagers ousting the existing village committee and electing new leaders.
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"We planned to make about 50, 000 dumplings and now the plan has been canceled, " said a woman surnamed Wang from the Liuminying village committee's tourist office.
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Ms Bond, chair of the Batheaston New Village Hall committee, said the building had been designed "very carefully" to fit within the conservation area.
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Mr. Lin, the newly elected village-committee head, said his government would continue to press ahead with efforts to reclaim land that villagers say was taken illegally.
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Lalit Bhanot, secretary-general of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, was pilloried for his defence of the levels of hygiene in the village.
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In addition to electing Mr. Lin as village committee head, six others were elected to the governing committee.
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One for Westminster village people is the appearance of Damian McBride before the Public Administration Committee (at 9.30am).
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Carole Bond, from the hall committee, said the plans were a result of an 18-month consultation with the village.
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