To reveal their real life
The disadvantaged groups are in a inferior position in all aspects;
(1) Income. The low-income groups and poverty in sharp contrast to wealthy high-income groups in Chinese society the gap between rich and poor is too poor. Meanwhile, the Gini coefficient increase in momentum rapidly.
(2) Property status of disadvantaged groups in China have very few financial assets.
(3) Health care status of low-income members of disadvantaged groups, consumption level is low, the malnutrition situation is relatively common, and their often great mental stress, so they tend to be higher than the prevalence odds of non-poor.
(4) Education resource is imbalanced among rich and poor. Most of the poor can not afford to get education.
(5) Welfare system is not enough to protect them.
Their stories
Students can't stand the intolerable cold of -40 ℃ and cry.
Students can't stand the intolerable cold of -40 ℃ and cry.
Cold weather, day by day, for the Altay region of the two pupils Ana Er and Mayer Noor, the winter is terrible. Who lives in Green River County, Ana Er fear of arctic weather is -40 ℃, who lives Jimunai County Mayer Noor fear is the "downtown sea breeze." Asian Heart Network reported them to a poor family, no warm winter clothes, for their help to the community.
A Naer help write the letter and Mayer Noor: "Although the road is very difficult to go to school, but the thirst for knowledge led us to school on time every day, in such conditions, I cherish every opportunity to learn, we are need some winter clothing to help us through this cold winter ... "
According to reports, Ana Er said that her home has 5 kilometers away from the school, walk her every day from home and school. Her teacher Botakuzi teacher said, still wearing her sister Ana Er through the old coat, this coat dress long since have been thinning at the elbow there is a frayed hole, short sleeves a large portion of snow these days, can A Naer feet wearing rubber-soled shoes to wear in summer.
Ana Er said, "now -20 ℃, not too cold. If -40 ℃, the cold, several times, I have been frozen to cry."
Reported that Ana Er rely on farming for a living father, mother perennial back pain is difficult to walk. Ana Er is the home of the "little adults", came home from school every day to the family cook.
A Naer home from five kilometers to school, and every winter filled with snow, especially snow, the snow knee-length, following not see potholes, reported that on several occasions in the school or school on the road, fall or when it can not stand the cold, when Ana Er can not help but cry. "But coming home, I cry, I can not let my parents see my tears."
Jimunai County Tost rural livestock boarding school third grade students Mayer song also co-Noor ‧ horse fearful of the winter. According to reports, Mayer Noor's teacher Kula Xi said: "Because of money, which the children wear school uniform every day for three consecutive years, in the winter, she will be wearing uniforms in several thick sweater, covered with bulging."
Reported that the school principal Gan Wing, said: "The school nearly 500 students, mostly from neighboring poor family of farmers and herdsmen, here's an especially long and cold winter, especially if there is not enough warm clothing, the children will be very tough."
A Naer help write the letter and Mayer Noor: "Although the road is very difficult to go to school, but the thirst for knowledge led us to school on time every day, in such conditions, I cherish every opportunity to learn, we are need some winter clothing to help us through this cold winter ... "
According to reports, Ana Er said that her home has 5 kilometers away from the school, walk her every day from home and school. Her teacher Botakuzi teacher said, still wearing her sister Ana Er through the old coat, this coat dress long since have been thinning at the elbow there is a frayed hole, short sleeves a large portion of snow these days, can A Naer feet wearing rubber-soled shoes to wear in summer.
Ana Er said, "now -20 ℃, not too cold. If -40 ℃, the cold, several times, I have been frozen to cry."
Reported that Ana Er rely on farming for a living father, mother perennial back pain is difficult to walk. Ana Er is the home of the "little adults", came home from school every day to the family cook.
A Naer home from five kilometers to school, and every winter filled with snow, especially snow, the snow knee-length, following not see potholes, reported that on several occasions in the school or school on the road, fall or when it can not stand the cold, when Ana Er can not help but cry. "But coming home, I cry, I can not let my parents see my tears."
Jimunai County Tost rural livestock boarding school third grade students Mayer song also co-Noor ‧ horse fearful of the winter. According to reports, Mayer Noor's teacher Kula Xi said: "Because of money, which the children wear school uniform every day for three consecutive years, in the winter, she will be wearing uniforms in several thick sweater, covered with bulging."
Reported that the school principal Gan Wing, said: "The school nearly 500 students, mostly from neighboring poor family of farmers and herdsmen, here's an especially long and cold winter, especially if there is not enough warm clothing, the children will be very tough."
Poor rights, discrimination frustrate migrant workers
The picture shows life of a typical migrant worker in China
BEIJING -- Migrant worker Yue Yaowei has lived in Beijing for six years but is not recognized as a resident of the Chinese capital — and so cannot get health insurance, buy a car or purchase a house.“I am under big pressure here,” Yue, 24, told AFP at a duck restaurant in central Beijing where he earns about US$400 a month as the head waiter.“I don't have much savings after buying clothes, gifts for my family and going out with friends.”
Yue is one of tens of millions of migrant workers around the country tied to a residency registration in their hometown which largely prevents them from accessing a range of public services once they move to other cities.
The so-called “hukou” system — which the government has vowed to reform — was introduced in the 1950s to curb potentially destabilizing population flows from the countryside to the cities, in a nation recovering from civil war.
It has fueled resentment among migrants, as has widespread discrimination against the army of low-paid workers, sometimes spilling over into violent unrest.
Unlike their parents, young migrant workers — the second generation — are more aware of their rights, and are increasingly frustrated with the treatment they receive in cities where they are often considered second-class citizens.
Last month, three days of riots in the southern province of Guangdong broke out after rumors spread that police had beaten a street hawker to death and manhandled his pregnant wife.
The protests in the manufacturing hub were the latest in a line of outbursts in the country, which analysts say highlight the frustration felt by migrants over what they see as unfair treatment and anger at the widening wealth gap.
“Very often these disputes that flare up are simply the result of long-simmering discontent,” Geoffrey Crothall of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights organization, told AFP.“There's a sense of social injustice that young migrant workers see every day and that is related to their personal and working conditions.”
While Yue has no plans to take to the streets over his struggle to make ends meet in Beijing, he sympathizes with the gripes of protesting workers in southern China.
Local residents “think outsiders squeeze their living environment and place competition pressures on them for jobs. Their life could be easier without us,” Yue admitted.
But he said the young workers “can't go back to their home town because they have left home for so long and have nothing there.”
China's economic boom started three decades ago when foreign-backed factories sprang up along the country's southern and eastern seaboards, attracting hundreds of millions of rural migrants seeking work.
The first generation worked long hours in often poor conditions but were able to send money back to their families, helping them build new homes and raise living standards in their rural villages.
Raised in those boom times, China's new generation of workers are less willing to accept difficult conditions for low pay and are increasingly assertive about exercising their own economic clout as laborers.
And many have no plan to go home.
“I'm not going home without realizing my dreams,” one of the workers said. “I just want to earn enough money so that I don't have to think too much and just buy whatever I like.”