They worry that allowing peasants to sell their land could restore a rural landowning class, and that peasants would sell up in huge numbers and descend upon ill-prepared cities, throwing up shanty towns and pushing up crime.

• 他们担心允许农民出让土地会复活农村地主阶级，农民大量售出土地继而冲击没有充分准备的城市，突现城镇危机，犯罪也会增加。