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FAST resistance of a stubborn elderly couple
has led to a road being constructed around their house in Wenling, Zhejiang
province, China. The pair refused to sign an agreement which would have allowed
their house to be demolished, saying the compensation offered was not enough to
cover the costs of rebuilding. As such, the authorities decided to go ahead
with the construction anyway, with the house remaining in the middle of the
road.
Quirky China News/Rex Features
THE Wenling house road is far from the
strangest road in China. This terrifying 1250m long, 5m high, 4m
wide 'cliff corridor' is perched 110 metres up a cliff face in Henan
Province, and is traversed by only the hardiest of drivers.
It was constructed in 1972 by 14
residents of the nearby Guaoliang village, who were so frustrated that the
only route to their remote settlement was a flight of 720 steep steps
that they took matters into their own hands. Local man Shen Mingxlen led
13 workers in chiselling a road through the rock face, despite having no
electricity or heavy machinery. It took them five years to complete their
'corridor', which is dotted with 35 window sized holes, from which rock was
dumped during construction. The men used 10 tonnes of drill rods
and 4,000 hammers to complete their feat, and one died after slipping
and falling.
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