Posted on 01/29/2018 12:42:52 PM PST by davikkm
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
In major policy shift, China will demolish thousands of migrant homes in cities Migrant workers built modern China, and are now being discarded In major policy shift, China will demolish thousands of migrant homes in cities A rare street protest in Beijing against demolitions of migrant homes and businesses (Getty) A rare street protest in Beijing against demolitions of migrant homes and businesses (Getty)
The mayor of China’s capital city Beijing has announced that workers would demolish 15 square miles of homes used by low-paid migrant workers. Many migrants have lived in these homes for years or decades, but now the city is declaring the homes to be illegal structures. The migrants will be evicted and left homeless.
Officials are not saying how many migrant workers would be evicted by the demolitions this year. However, in general terms, Beijing would like to reduce the population of Beijing by 15 percent, and this would fall most heavily on the estimated 3 million migrant workers living in Beijing, or 450,000. Other reports estimate 8 million migrant workers in Beijing. The larger figure may include suburbs.
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Waiting for Liberal-Dems to explode in outrage ... still waiting ... 3, 2, 1 ... crickets
Can I safely assume we're talking about raggedy men here?
All of a sudden, the Chinese “ghost cities” will be filled!
Women and migrants hardest hit...
I think these are the "Starving Whores of China" we heard of when we were children.
The chinese migrants are people who moved from rural areas to the cities to work but have not been given residency permits and cannot legally live there or get benefits.
If they protest, they will be shot with automatic weapons, run over with tracked vehicles, bulldozed into plies, burned, and whatever remains hosed down the sewers (thus ended Tiananmen Square) and so solves the migrant population problem.
Ah, okay thanks.
You left out the part where we reward China with a very large slice our manufacturing.
Just went without saying.
I'm waiting for them to say, "China, taking a page from Trump's playbook..."
They are migrants, not im-migrants.
Read about the Hoku system to understand their situation, say in Wikipedia.
On birth Chinese are given a numeric identifier—14 digits, I believe—which links them to a birth area. If it’s a city, fine. If it’s a rural area, less fine.
The problem is that many generous benefits are tied to your Hoku residency. You can live wherever but you might not get the same healthcare or educational benefits, or easy entry into government provided employment. I was told that your Hoku residency can be changed, but it’s quite expensive to do so. Also, it’s easier if you have been through military service.
Rural wages are poor enough that people migrate around looking for better work. That’s what’s going on here.
I agree, but I also like to rub it in, against China not you.
That is (exactly) what I was thinking.
Those “ghost cities” suddenly take on a whole other significance.
Maybe that is exactly what they are made for?
Strange calculus by the ruling elites. Not sure why they think it is politically beneficial to reduce the cities populations by piss*** off millions of rural Chinese that could one day revolt against the party.
Where specifically is this taking place in China and who are the “migrants” thar are affected ?
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