Ten officials from Guangzhou have been disciplined after thousands of banyan trees, a mainstay of the southern Chinese city’s landscape, were cut down....
Their overgrown roots could also damage roads and underground pipes, authorities claimed. There has, however, been a groundswell of local support for keeping the trees....
“ How can the city be called Guangzhou without the banyan trees, ” one user wrote on the Weibo microblogging service....
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