The famous Chinese eight-story building located right inside the overpass (5 photos + 1 video)

Such houses located in the wrong place are called in China "dingzihu" or "nail house". Usually incidents with "stubborn nails" happen during new developments when people refuse to leave their homes, and you have to somehow get out ...





House number 28 on Yongxing Ze is an unusual landmark Chinese city of Guangzhou. Eight-storey apartment building rises right in the center of a busy overpass. Strange? Quite!

And the following happened: in 2008, in the Haizhu district in Guangzhou, it was decided to build a new road junction and for this Several buildings had to be demolished. Most residents reached an agreement with the developer, sold their home and moved. But three residents The 8-storey yellow building refused to leave the apartments if their demands will not be fulfilled. They put forward conditions so harsh that developers decided to abandon negotiations and just build a flyover around this unfortunate building!

Today, the city anomaly at 28 is cited as an example the history of the most stubborn struggle of the people of Guangzhou against the developers.



The story gained wide popularity in 2015, hitting the international news thanks to pictures of the new Zhuotouzui Tunnel. People were more interested in the “nail house” isolated in the center of the overpass, than an ultra-modern tunnel, and the tenacity of the remaining inhabitants of the house became one of the main news topics.





According to a 2017 That's Mags article, the only ones who left to live in house 28, there were Guo Jimin and his brother, who refused move out of your 30 square meter apartment. Anyway after the construction of the bypass overpass, they had practically no chance receive at least some compensation from developers. At that time in Guo's apartment was still supplied with water and electricity, and bus the brothers had stops and supermarkets within walking distance.



“Most residents received about 400,000 yuan back in 2011 year. This amount at that time was enough to buy an apartment on secondary market. Therefore, most of our neighbors took money to buy a new home," Guo told the Southern Metropolis Daily.



What conclusion can be drawn here? Stubbornness may not be the worst quality, but sometimes you need to turn on your head.