Berhasil mengangkat rakyat Tiongkok dari kemiskinan??? Bagaimana ngangkatnya??
Melalui kerja lebih dari 12 jam sehari, 6 hari seminggu, upah rendah, tidak ada
hak membangun Serikat buruh yang sejati membela hak buruh, pembungkaman suara
buruh, melalui penggusuran dan pengusiran buruh migran yang sudah membangun
semua yang dibanggakan oleh antek pengkhianat PKT ???? Dari dulu hanya anak
balita yang percaya bla...bla..bla pepesan kosongnya...
Migrant workers forced out as one of Shenzhen’s last ‘urban villages’ faces
wrecking ball
- Some 150,000 residents of Baishizhou have to leave by the end of September
to make way for malls, hotels and high-end residential projects
- They worry about finding affordable housing in the city, and their
children’s education
Phoebe Zhang
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Phoebe Zhang | South China Morning Post
Phoebe Zhang is a society reporter with the South China Morning Post. She likes
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Published: 10:00am, 22 Jul, 2019
Urban villages like Baishizhou provide affordable housing, mostly for migrant
workers. Photo: Phoebe Zhang
As their eviction deadline nears, all Chen Jian can think about is the wrecking
ball – and where his family is going to go. He often dreams about the
negotiations – with officials, real estate developers, landlords. On other
nights, he cannot sleep at all.
“I’m mostly worried about my daughter – she starts secondary school in
September,” said Chen, 41, who works as a quality supervisor for a foreign
trading company.
His family of four lives in a cheap one-bedroom flat in Baishizhou, one of the
last standing chengzhongcun, or “urban villages”, in the flourishing commercial
zones of southern Chinese city Shenzhen.
The villages provide affordable housing – costing from a few hundred to a few
thousand yuan per month – to a mostly migrant worker population that provides
services and labour.
But Baishizhou, in the Nanshan district, will not be standing for much longer.
Many tenants in the area have received eviction notices since June, telling
them to move out before the end of September to make way for a real estate
project led by Shenzhen-based developer LVGEM Group.
The developer bought the land and buildings from their landlords, and it plans
to knock them down and replace them with malls, hotels, high-end residential
projects and skyscrapers.
Some 150,000 people are affected, mostly migrant workers, and they will have to
find new homes, change jobs or even move back home at short notice.
Chen Jian lives in a one-bedroom flat in Baishizhou with his wife, daughter and
son. Photo: Phoebe Zhang
For Chen and more than 2,000 other families, their children’s education is the
most urgent issue. He said they could move somewhere else nearby, but the rent
would be more than four times higher. A cheaper area would mean a long walk to
school for his daughter from the nearest subway station..
As the breadwinner, Chen’s monthly income of 12,000 yuan (US$1,750) has to
cover the whole family. His wife takes care of their three-year-old son and
their daughter, 12.
“If I were here by myself, I would just pack up my bags and go,” said Chen, who
moved to Shenzhen from Henan province. “But I can’t – I have children, I would
do anything for my children.”
Urban villages are a phenomenon that grew from China’s rapid development. In
the 1980s, soon after Shenzhen became the country’s first special economic
zone, the local government expropriated mostly vacant land from villagers and
allowed developers to build commercial properties there.
The locals invested the large sums of money they received into new living
spaces in their villages, which they rented out to the migrant workers that
flowed into the city amid a manufacturing boom.
These chengzhongcun emerged as a tangle of damp alleyways, where electricity
and telephone wires hang like spiderwebs. They bustle with fruit carts, soy
milk shops, cobblers, karaoke parlours, short-stay love hotels and hair salons
offering massage services. The “handshake buildings” where people live are
packed together so tightly that residents could reach out of the window and
shake their neighbour’s hand in the opposite flat.
“I call this ‘voluntary urbanisation’,” said Duan Peng, an architect based in
the city. Since he moved to Shenzhen in 2001, Duan has spent many days and
nights in Baishizhou. He said its development was in line with the government’s
urban planning policy, since it allowed migrant workers to live in a relatively
prosperous area in the city centre rather than on its periphery.
“Handshake buildings”, where residents can shake their neighbours’ hands
through the windows, are a feature of China’s urban villages. Photo: Phoebe
Zhang
Chen moved to Shenzhen with his wife in 2000, and both their children were born
there. They moved to Baishizhou in 2008 after he was introduced to his
landlord, who is from Chen’s hometown and rented him the flat for 650 yuan a
month.
The rent has gone up by just 300 yuan in the 11 years they have lived there..
They have watched as new developments sprang up around them – amusement parks,
a golf course, malls and an area that is home to some of the country’s top tech
companies including Huawei, Tencent and DJI.
But away from the shiny new developments, 150,000 migrant workers from all over
the country are packed into 2,500 buildings in Baishizhou, where rents and
services are affordable.
The urban village is full of people like Chen. Small business owner Wang Fang
came to Shenzhen from northeast China in 2003 and has lived in Baishizhou ever
since. Six months ago, she signed a three-year lease on a commercial space and
opened a dumpling restaurant, but she is worried about the future.
“I can’t go back home, I already have a Shenzhen hukou,” she said, referring to
the household registration document that gives access to public services. “I
don’t have land there any more and can’t make a living there [as a farmer].”
She has not been told she has to leave the restaurant, but Wang and her two
sons have until the end of September – when the building’s water and
electricity will be cut off – to vacate their flat.
“It’s only a matter of time before the business is shut down as well,” she said.
Small shops and street vendors line Baishizhou’s bustling alleyways.. Photo:
Phoebe Zhang
According to an online poll of 1,031 Baishizhou residents this week, about half
said they may have to find another job, and more than 600 were concerned about
their children’s education. The survey, conducted by Shenzhen University urban
planning professor Chen Zhu, also found that 70 per cent of those polled
planned to find another flat in the city, while 28 per cent would leave.
Duan said the evictions and redevelopment would inevitably affect the
surrounding areas, as well as the residents.
“The prices of services in the neighbourhood will increase, because many of the
workers [now providing those services] will move far away, and rents will
increase as well,” he said.
But for many such redevelopments, while the government, landlords and village
officials might be consulted, the tenants are left out.
“Most of these residents, their voices and their interests aren’t on the
negotiating table – their losses aren’t calculated in the real estate
developer’s demolition costs,” Duan said.
A receptionist at LVGEM said he was not aware of any complaints about the
redevelopment, while emails to the company went unanswered.
Meanwhile the developer’s partner, Baishizhou Corporation, told Southern
Metropolis Daily it would provide legal services, rentals support and school
buses for tenants who will be displaced.
But it is not enough for migrant workers like Chen. Like many of those facing
eviction, he fears he will have to pay more rent, and there may not be a school
bus service in his area.
He mentions a slogan plastered on walls in the city, “Once you come, you’re a
Shenzhener” – part of a government campaign to lure talent and investors.
Chen said he worried that Shenzhen wanted only hi-tech workers and luxury
residential compounds in the city, leaving little room for low-income workers.
“Despite what the slogan says, you ask yourself, are you really a Shenzhener?”
he said.
How the eviction of Beijing’s migrant workers is tearing at the fabric of the
city’s economy
Once-thriving businesses come to a standstill as authorities demolish ‘illegal’
structures to satisfy population caps
Agence France-Presse
Published: 3:38pm, 4 Jan, 2018
A cooker hood cleaner rides his bike through a migrant village on the outskirts
of Beijing. Photo: AFP
Lin Huiqing moved to Beijing to look for work when his children were still in
diapers.
For the last 18 years, he has seen his family just once a year, the rest spent
doing the hard labour most Beijingers would prefer to avoid.
The 50-year-old is one of hundreds of millions of migrants who moved from the
countryside to the cities, a colossal demographic shift that made China’s
ascent possible.
But last month Lin was evicted from the village where he lived on the capital’s
outskirts, another victim of a citywide demolition plan to limit Beijing’s
population to 23 million by 2020 – a target that could come at the cost of its
economy.
“If I go home, I have no way to support my wife and kids,” Lin said.
Lin, like other migrant workers, fuelled his nation’s dramatic economic rise,
toiling in jobs far from home, but he and others are now finding themselves
increasingly unwelcome as authorities try to cap the population explosions in
key cities.
According to the Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily, the city plans to
demolish 40 million square metres of “illegal” structures. Many are the homes
and shops of low-income migrants like Lin.
Migrant workers are finding themselves increasingly unwelcome as authorities
try to cap the population explosions in key cities. Photo: AFP
When he first arrived in Beijing, Lin and his friends pooled their money and
took out loans to buy delivery trucks.
He made a living hauling the wares of small-scale shopkeepers and traders, but
the moving business has taken a hit as the city condemns buildings en masse,
evicting tens of thousands into the winter cold.
“Our customers are commoners like us,” he said. “With their small businesses
shut down, there’s no stock for us to move. We’re basically unemployed now.”
Authorities say the campaign, which kicked into high gear after a fire in an
illegal structure killed 19 in November, is needed to clean the city up once
and for all.
But it is also removing vibrant chunks of Beijing’s economy, such as retail and
small-scale manufacturing, and throwing into chaos other sectors like delivery,
the bedrock of the booming e-commerce trade.
Relegated to the periphery, migrants have kept China’s economy humming,
handling the difficult, dirty and sometimes dangerous work that the city’s
permanent residents will not do.
Urban industries like construction, domestic work and sanitation are almost
completely staffed by migrants.
Eli Friedman, associate professor of international and comparative labour at
Cornell University, said China’s biggest cities “simply cannot function without
migrant workers”.
“If every non-local were to actually be removed from cities like Beijing,
Shanghai, and Guangzhou, these economic engines for the whole country would
completely collapse,” he said.
But that is exactly what is happening, according to Li Ning, one of the 60,000
delivery drivers who criss-cross Beijing’s streets.
Li was recently evicted from a village on the city’s outskirts, forcing him
into a flat where the rent quadrupled.
A school playground near buildings demolished by authorities in a migrant
housing area on the outskirts of Beijing. Photo: AFP
Then authorities came for his delivery company’s warehouse, forcing staff to
sort packages on the pavement and sending his income plummeting.
“In Beijing all the migrants are leaving. We can’t make it here any more,” he
said, adding he plans to leave for good the Lunar New Year next month.
Another delivery franchise owner surnamed Wang said she would “give up” if
authorities knocked down her warehouse, which they marked in black paint with
the character “chai” – meaning “demolish” – last month.
She had just moved in December 1, after she had to close two other delivery
hubs this year, forcing her to cut her work force from 240 couriers to 60.
“There’s no stability. I don’t know what I’ll be facing tomorrow,” she said.
The demolitions have also hit Beijing’s retail sector, destroying
once-affordable family-run shops and pushing consumers online or into high-end
malls.
Two years ago, Ge Guoxiang moved with his wife from their home province of
Jiangsu to take over his brother’s textiles stall.
It had thrived for over 20 years in Beijing’s Tuanjiehu Tianyu market. But
three months ago, they received notice that authorities would close the market.
Dozens of small-scale community markets have been forced to shut down this year
– including the Beijing Zoo market, where hundreds of merchants organised rare
street protests against the evictions.
Officials said they had designated certain areas in the neighbouring Hebei
province where merchants could move their businesses to.
But Ge is unconvinced.
“It takes years for businesses like ours to build up clientele. Now we have to
start over,” he said.
“Our clients are mostly older people who don’t know how to shop online. Where
will they go?”
On Wednesday, August 21, 2019, 02:12:03 AM GMT+2, ChanCT
[email protected] [GELORA45] <[email protected]> wrote:
Eeeiiih, rupanya di AS juga muncul orang seperti nenek-dalam tempurung di
Belanda yang membutakan diri, dan hidup dalam mimpi ubdahnya didalam tempurung
saja, ...!
Capa apa yang diberikan penguasa PKT pada penentangnya itu? Asal cuap dan
mengenal PKT dari propaganda AS yg jelas menjelek-jelekan saja, tanpa bisa
melihat bahwa PKT sekarang ini telah BERHASIL melepaskan 1,4 MILYAR rakyat
Tiongkok dari kemiskinan! Bahwa PKT telah berhasil tegak berdiri menghadapi
bahkan membuat AS kewalahan menghadapi pesaing yang baru muncul ini!
Dunia sedang berpaling dan bersimpati melihat pertumbuhan dan perkeembangan
Republik Rakyat Tiongkok yang dipimpin PKT ini, kok masih saja ada orang-orang
termakan propaganda-hitam AS dan tetap saja membutakan diri!
[email protected] [GELORA45] 於 21/8/2019 3:49 寫道:
Betul, sama dengan cap yg diberikan penguasa pkt kepada para penentangnya itu.
Coba kalo menang, si ko Chan juga ikut menikmati dan ganti haluan, jadi
patriot bangsa. Maklum sekarang takut diciduk.
Diam2 diawasi nih milis.
Sunny ambonAug 19 1:35 PM
Cap apa yang diberikan oleh penjajah Belanda kepada anggota perjuangan
kemerdekaan RI sebelum 27 Desember 1949? Cap apa yang ditempelkan oleh rezim
Soeharto dan pengikutnya terhadap Fretilin di Timor Timur sebelum 20 Mei 2002?
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