China is not. The CCP can just seize the land and force you to accept a pittance in compensation.
I genuinely can’t continue this conversation in good conscience given the fact that I don’t have sources. I can only go off of some YouTube documentaries I watched once upon a time where the government made a valuation on some land, sent in some archeologists and rehoused residents taking them rural living conditions with an outhouse to newer houses with toilets. In each case I saw the government deemed the projects more valuable than the people’s land/houses and time has proven them right as they have high speed rail and economic growth in all areas the rail network extends to and beyond.