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BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese couple's battle to stop developers from razing their home and business is getting close attention in a nation eager to test a landmark new law guaranteeing private property rights.
Wu Ping and Yang Wu have been fighting off bulldozers in downtown Chongqing since 2004, when they were one of 280 households asked to make way for a redevelopment project in the booming southwestern city of 27.7 million.
One by one the other residences have been demolished, leaving their two-story brick building perched precariously on a small island of land surrounded by a vast construction site.
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