In China Overpopulation and Unemployment Go Hand in Hand
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The Big Smoke (2009): A poor economic climate spells disaster for China's millions of urban migrants. For similar stories, see: Behind the Great Firewall of China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA77LMVFXsk The Italian Town Overwhelmed By Chinese Migrants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYSmGPI0naw Did China Cut Corners In School Construction? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQo_ARDgjSc Subscribe to journeyman for daily uploads: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: https://www.journeyman.tv/film/4405 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journeymanpictures Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JourneymanVOD https://twitter.com/JourneymanNews Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/journeymanpictures Chinas economic downturn has badly hit the millions of migrant workers who leave their remote villages for the industrial South. At the world's factory, competition is fierce and jobs are scarce. "There are over 2000 people in our village. About 700 of them go to Guandong looking for jobs. The older people stay at home working the fields." In rural China, the young leave their homes in droves to find better paid jobs in the city. Like millions of others, Xiong Yan is desperate to find work, so that she can help provide for her family. "My family is poor. Usually I'll send them my salary." At the overcrowded employment agency, dozens anxiously wait to get an appointment. "They're left with no social security, healthcare, or education rights in the city. Salaries are very low." Dr Kaimings NGO specialises in the rights of migrant workers. He believes they have been exploited by employers with the blessing of a government that had its eyes set on economic growth at any cost. "The biggest threat is that unemployed migrant workers may start to protest against the government" says Dr Kaiming. Discontent is growing but migrants in search of work keep flooding in. Although new labour laws were introduced, the economic climate means job seekers will have to accept lower wages and worse conditions. ABC Australia - ref. 4405 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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Capitalism would not work in China. This is cristal clear for me. This communism thing is the best china has. Shit there so many of them and how to feed all this people, it's insane. How do we manage to sustain 6 billion people it's awesome.
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China should not adopt western democratic or capitalist system . It's too large a population to work.
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China indeed needs another revolution or more Tiananmen Square protests like those in 1989.
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they need some weed in they'd life
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So, they are only still communist in the way people have no rights -- no freedom of speech, no due process of law, etc. No one can complain, no one can make trouble. Otherwise a capitalist hell. Looks like a billionaire industrialist's wet dream.
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Old video... It was talking overpopulation so no jobs 7 years ago...With the help of 2.0 hindsight, the shortage of labor and rising wages are the order of the day 7 years later...So you can see how ignorant the western media are about China..
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I was living in China during that time. .. actually the "Great Recession" did not hit China nearly as bad as it hit USA. Though at the time I did get a pay reduction so I quit the job. Went back to Canada a few months later and tried to find work during the peak of the crises. . took a few months but found work. Actually living in CHina I had know idea how big the recession was. I bet most of the people in this doc are making double or more what they did in 2009
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Those ching chong pricks would do anything for money.
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perfect documentary!
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Are they still abducting the hong kong book sellers. China is a fucking joke. A total GULAG.
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Tho, it is old, the story, and the human journey is as old, or as recent as they come.
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This is rather long time ago
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Hey look, it's America in 20 years after everyone finishes hopping fences and pillaging our soil.
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Music too loud
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China is an awful pit of the world. So many bodies, all like mindless drones crammed into apartment blocks and factories.
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Isn't this documentary from last century?
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oh yeah,, looks like another Tiananmen square coming. only this time liberty and freedom will succeed. troops will back down. the corrupted super rich will flee the country. wait for the celebration
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the document is out of date It had been more than 8 years already
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usa goverment edit antichina documental!! protest=not job=not food
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