China cutting

(in Pakistan) Practice of illegal subdividing of large lots of land into very small residential lots and selling them.
Practitioners of this activity are often influential people or groups who acquire land for their purpose legally and illegally. The practice of China cutting is considered illegal because acquired land is repurposed as small residential lots without proper zoning or government approval. For example, public parks, government owned empty lots and even graveyards and cemeteries are carved into smaller lots and then sold as residential lots.

Even some government ministers have been accused of China cutting.