According to Article 13 of the Land Management Law:

Land ownership and use rights registered according to law are protected by law, and no unit or individual may infringe upon them.

regulations on the 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.

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.