A farmer from southern China has spent 330,000 yuan (US$52,500) moving his entire house 40 metres away from the site of a road construction scheme, according to a news website report.
Workers pulled the home in Duchang county in Jiangxi province along a series of sleepers to get to its new location, Jxnews.com.cn reported.
Gao Yiping spent 1 million yuan building and decorating the three-storey house in 2014. “We’ve been living in it for less than a year. I don’t want to demolish it,” he was quoted as saying.
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Gao also said the cost of moving the house was far less than building a new one.
The side of the house that was moved on sleepers. Photo: News.dayoo.com
It took six weeks for workers using winches to drag the home 40 metres. More than 1,000 wooden sleepers were used in the operation.
