Reply #30: China does it all the time

[NewJeffCT]

We were in Nanjing, China last September and across one long street, there were red banners stretched across the street in the air from one side to another. Every building had the same red sign - I thought it was one of those "Come to the 38th annual Nanjing Salted Duck Festival" or some similar festival, as it reminded of those signs we see in small town America.

So, I asked my wife, who speaks, reads & writes the language, what the signs says, and she basically said that the sign is telling people to leave now because the government is going to take this area and build office towers in the near future.