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Chinese neighbours go viral over 200-year land dispute dating back to Qianlong era

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, October 26, 2026 at 2:00 AM · 1 min read
Chinese neighbours go viral over 200-year land dispute dating back to Qianlong era — South China Morning Post, Beijing Business news
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A Chinese court recently heard a land dispute between neighbours who have been fighting over the same issue for two centuries and across multiple generations, stunning social media users. The court in Yanta district, Xian, in northwestern China’s Shaanxi province, recently presided over a case concerning a land boundary between two neighbouring families, surnamed Du and Zhang. For the past two decades, the neighbours have repeatedly disputed the boundary. When the Dus tried to renovate their...

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