These “villages within cities”, as they are called, can take advantage of urban housing demand to rake in fortunes with their remaining plots of collectively owned land.

这些被称作“城中村”的地方，乡民凭借余下的集体所有的小块土地（乡民凭借剩下的小块集体所有土地），可以利用城市对住宅的需求来获取财富。

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In name at least, rural land is collectively owned by village residents.

至少在表面上，农村的土地为农村的居民所共有。

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Allow the sale, leasing and demutualization of rural, collectively owned buildable land under the premise that it conforms to planning.

在符合规划和用途管制前提下，允许农村集体经营性建设用地出让、租赁、入股。

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Local officials can convert collectively owned rural plots into land for private development.

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Much of China's rural land is still collectively owned, one of the last remaining communist principles to survive intact.

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The law is distilled from rural custom and Hindu scripture, and generally holds that land is owned collectively by families and then passed to the next generation, as represented by sons.

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