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Forever blowing bubbles 　　Yang is at a loss after his small plot of farmland was appropriated by the local government three years ago in exchange for just enough compensation to buy into a new resettlement housing project also being built by the government. 　　“I’ve been eking out a living on the land my whole life， but now it is all gone，” the 58-year-old farmer in Wuwei， northwest China’s Gansu Province told our reporter. Yang used to support his family of three by growing vegetables on a meager plot of 1.3 mu （0.2 acres）. Now， that livelihood is gone. 　　After being appropriated for the ch