More than 1,000 residents of one Chinese city came home last week to find the public road leading to their homes had ”vanished” after a real estate developer bought it and dug it up to form part of a construction site, mainland media reports. Mud and rocks inside the building site are all that remain of the road, stretching less than one kilometre, in Nanning, in Guangxi autonomous region, which was in use for more than 30 years until last Friday, Modern Life Daily reported. Students and other residents of the Huaguiyuan residential compound in the centre of the city returned to find the road dug up and the land on which it stood fenced off. They were forced to climb walls and trudge through an area of mud and rocks, while dodging construction vehicles, in order to get home, the newspaper reported. Cars parked inside the residential compound were unable to leave. The construction company, Fufung, has erected a fence at the entrance to the compound, along with a sign warning residents that they must not enter the site to gain access to their homes. Angry residents have put up their own banners to protest against what they called the developer’s “barbarian behaviour”, and have demanded that the city’s government intervenes. However, Fufeng told the newspaper that it had obtained all the necessary legal permits from the city government to buy and build on the original access road. It said it was building a new access road, on the other side of the compound, which would be ready later this week, but residents said they would refuse to use it. They said the new road would be too narrow and steep and would pose a danger to motorists and pedestrians. The city government said on Friday that it had instructed the developer to pave an emergency access road leading to the compound’s original entrance so that vehicles now trapped inside the compound were free to move