Legal basis: Regulations on Expropriation and Compensation of Houses on State-owned Land
Article 8 In order to safeguard national security, promote national economic and social development and other public interests, if it is really necessary to expropriate houses under any of the following circumstances, the people's government of the city or county shall make a decision to expropriate houses:
(a) the needs of national defense and diplomacy;
(two) the needs of the government organization and implementation of energy, transportation, water conservancy and other infrastructure construction;
(three) the needs of public utilities such as science and technology, education, culture, health, sports, environmental and resource protection, disaster prevention and mitigation, cultural relics protection, social welfare, and municipal utilities organized and implemented by the government;
(four) the needs of the construction of affordable housing projects organized and implemented by the government;
(five) the needs of the old city reconstruction organized and implemented by the government according to the relevant provisions of the Urban and Rural Planning Law;
(six) the needs of other public interests as prescribed by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 9 According to the provisions of Article 8 of these Regulations, if it is really necessary to expropriate houses for all construction activities, it shall conform to the national economic and social development planning, the overall land use planning, urban and rural planning and special planning. The construction of affordable housing projects and the transformation of old areas should be included in the annual plans for national economic and social development at the city and county levels.
The formulation of national economic and social development planning, overall land use planning, urban and rural planning and special planning shall solicit public opinions and conduct scientific argumentation.
Tenth housing levy departments to develop compensation programs, reported to the municipal and county people's governments.
The municipal and county people's governments shall organize relevant departments to demonstrate and publish the compensation scheme for expropriation and solicit public opinions. The time for soliciting opinions shall not be less than 30 days.
Eleventh people's governments at the city and county levels shall promptly announce the situation of soliciting opinions and making amendments according to public opinions.
Because of the need to expropriate houses due to the transformation of the old city, and most of the expropriated people think that the expropriation compensation scheme does not conform to the provisions of these regulations, the people's governments at the city and county levels shall organize a hearing attended by the expropriated people and public representatives, and modify the scheme according to the hearing.