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"Two days ago, when Ning Ge mentioned the old city redevelopment project to me, I had already spread the news," Zhou Qing quickly explained. "But as soon as those real estate companies heard it was an old city redevelopment project, they all refused to take it on."
Anzhou County is divided by the Hun River into two urban areas, the South City and the North City.
The North City has been gradually developed over recent years, with dense construction clusters and several prosperous commercial strips, well-equipped buildings, and predominantly new housing.
The redevelopment project was slated for the South City, the old city district. Within the South City were many structures built in violation of regulations, and numerous households affected by the demolition, making the redevelopment naturally very complicated.
