Having celebrated the Lunar New Year for half a century in Tianjin's impoverished Xiyuzhuang community, this year's Spring Festival was especially significant for Duan Yunhai.

"It might be the last time we celebrate the Spring Festival in the neighborhood, considering the whole community is expected to move out by the end of the year," said the 55-year-old butcher from a local supermarket, who was born and bred in the area.

"It's great news to move out of the area, yet it's also sad to say goodbye to a place where you have lived for decades.