Nanjing man stages 'crab protest' against city's soaring house prices
Protester says property developers as stubborn as crabs
A Nanjing man, angry at the city’s rising property prices, staged an unusual protest on Thursday. He walked with six crabs to the annual housing expo held in the Jiangsu capital and told people high property prices were getting out of control.
Developers were as arrogant as "crawling crabs," he said.
Pictures shared online by bloggers showed the man, in sunglasses, walking into the venue with several crabs, each tied to a string and bearing a sticker on its shell. The stickers read: “high housing prices" and "high land prices."
The man, whose identity was not revealed, complained he could not afford to buy a flat since even price for new apartments at remote parts of the city had passed 10,000 yuan per square metre.
Wei Dan, a Nanjing native living in Hong Kong, said house price in the city is "abnormally" high given the relatively moderate income of its residents.