ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Factories Wrest Land From China's Farmers on how officials sell off farmland for commercial use,

often with little or no compensation for the farmers, who lease land collectively held by their villages and have only vague property rights....their small plots are unable to compete in a market economy. In practice, farmers say, the transition is being accomplished by selling the farmers' fields against their will, with the benefits of development and urbanization going only to a few.

Her reporting is starting to get good; that means she's probably about to be reassigned.