久久久无码人妻精品无码_6080YYY午夜理论片中无码_性无码专区_无码人妻品一区二区三区精99

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / View

Guizhou tragedy a lesson on Urbanization

By Lisa Carducci (China Daily) Updated: 2012-11-23 08:16

The discovery of five children's bodies in a dumpster in Bijie, Guizhou province, recently has added fuel to the debate on the country's wealth gap, especially because the victims had taken shelter in the garbage container to escape from the cold. The tragedy shows how complicated the situation in China is and the extent of challenges that lie ahead for the government.

Some netizens have blamed the local authorities and the five children's school as evil criminals for the tragedy. But this is not justified, for the school's teachers visited the children's homes several times to persuade them to return to classes after they had dropped out of school. The children had been accommodated by local civil affairs authorities but later chose to be vagrants again as "such a lifestyle was freer". Some other netizens have gone even further by totally denying China's achievements in social security over the past decades.

It is indeed the responsibility of governments at all levels to take care of vagrants, especially in winter when they are most vulnerable. But there is nothing to suggest that the Chinese government is any less responsible than its counterparts in developed countries. Even in an advanced country like Japan, more than 2,000 people starved to death last year as the economy stagnated. In Spain, some people have been forced to collect food from garbage as the country sinks deeper into the euro debt crisis.

The tragedies in Japan and Spain, however, cannot be an excuse for the Chinese government to shirk its responsibilities. But one has to understand that China is a vast country and it needs time to narrow the income gap between rich and poor and urban and rural residents. It is undeniable, though, that the Chinese government has to take more urgent measures to help the rural poor. The key question, however, is what those measures should be.

The Guizhou tragedy highlights one of the most sensible issues in China - the condition of migrant workers and their left-behind children, as well as that of the children who accompany their parents to large cities.

In 2011, China's migrant population reached more than 252 million (18.7 percent of the total population). Since the beginning of reform and opening-up, a huge number of rural workers have migrated to urban areas, contributing to China's fast-paced economic development and urbanization.

Farmers migrate from the countryside to the cities in search of better-paid work. When both parents leave home for work, their children are often left in the care of grandparents who may not be able to bring them up according to the demands of modern society. The number of such left-behind children in China is estimated to be 50 million.

Just like the five victims in Guizhou, a large number of children are left alone in the countryside. Parents may call them once in a while over the phone from the cities where they often live in miserable conditions but which they still find better than their rural homes because they can earn some money. Once the parents are "established" in a city, many of them get their children to join them.

Some inland cities have only recently started providing migrants with social security, including pensions and other insurance. But the stringent hukou (household registration) system is still restrictive in the country.

I am familiar with the situation because I ventured into rural regions to collect material for my Work in Progress - Chinese Education From a Foreign Expert's Perspective, published this year by China Intercontinental Press, and also because I live on the outskirts of Beijing where migrant workers are legions. They have built houses, without running water and garbage disposal facilities, and created a village of 800 households. More than 1,000 migrants' children attend a primary school (under the municipality's administration) where conditions are extremely poor. The school also holds middle-school classes because the children can't compete with urban children to enter other schools. No wonder, these youths quit studies after the nine-year compulsory schooling.

Migrant workers are essential to building cities. About 7 million migrant workers live in Beijing alone, which is one-third of the city's population. After the 2010 census, a government report said more than 100 million farmers would move to cities by 2020, for which unequal development of urban and rural areas is said to be the major cause.

The trend of urbanization is irreversible. But urbanization doesn't mean endless development of urban areas. Urbanization should reach the remote regions, too, instead of taking their labor resources to cities.

So why not bring modernity and progress to the countryside? And why not develop the rural economies and provide urban-style social services in rural areas, rather than leave the villages to their own fate?

Instead of using migrants in the city as cheap labor - though providing social security to them as compensation - the country should provide social services for the elderly and the poorest of the poor who don't migrate to cities. Children would not have to move to cities with their parents, which creates greater social imbalance, if schools were built in their villages, and competition among fellow rural students would be fairer.

At the recently concluded 18th Party Congress, the country's leaders promised to improve migrant workers' life and work conditions. But it would make better sense to invest in the urbanization of the countryside, providing local residents work without having to migrate to cities, than to pay traveling expenses to family members to visit their migrant parents or offspring who are too busy to go home.

Left-behind children and migrants' children in cities need real help, not compassion. In Beijing, several NGOs and some individuals help such children by holding free classes to teach subjects like English, music and drawing. On Saturdays, I teach migrants' children in a middle school to make handicrafts out of waste paper, newspapers and magazines, and used clothes, chopsticks, plastic bottles, and cigarette and mooncake boxes.

Before the rural areas develop to reach the level of cities, people need to lend a hand rather than sit and complain.

The author is a Canadian scholar based in Beijing.

(China Daily 11/23/2012 page9)

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
久久久无码人妻精品无码_6080YYY午夜理论片中无码_性无码专区_无码人妻品一区二区三区精99

    欧美成人猛片aaaaaaa| 日韩视频123| 午夜精彩视频在线观看不卡| 欧美精品久久99久久在免费线| 日韩专区欧美专区| 久久综合九色综合97婷婷| 成人黄色综合网站| 亚洲综合一区二区三区| 日韩一区二区电影在线| 高清不卡在线观看| 亚洲午夜羞羞片| 精品动漫一区二区三区在线观看| 国产成人精品aa毛片| 亚洲精品视频观看| 欧美一区二区视频免费观看| 国产精品一区二区久久不卡| 亚洲日本在线视频观看| 欧美丰满美乳xxx高潮www| 国产乱码精品一区二区三| 亚洲免费观看高清完整| 欧美大片在线观看| 成人avav在线| 日韩国产欧美在线视频| 国产欧美一区二区三区鸳鸯浴| 色先锋资源久久综合| 麻豆精品国产91久久久久久| 中文字幕一区在线观看| 制服.丝袜.亚洲.中文.综合| 国产不卡高清在线观看视频| 亚洲v精品v日韩v欧美v专区| 国产欧美精品国产国产专区 | 国产精品综合网| 中文字幕一区二区日韩精品绯色 | 欧美乱妇15p| 国产不卡在线播放| 午夜精品在线视频一区| 欧美高清在线一区二区| 欧美一区三区四区| 99精品黄色片免费大全| 久久精品国产亚洲aⅴ| 国产精品久久久99| 日韩欧美一级特黄在线播放| 97精品国产97久久久久久久久久久久 | 欧美性videosxxxxx| 国产中文字幕精品| 亚洲国产三级在线| 欧美韩国日本不卡| 日韩一级片网址| 在线免费观看一区| 国产福利91精品一区二区三区| 午夜久久福利影院| 亚洲欧美中日韩| 久久色视频免费观看| 欧美日韩在线播放| 成人18视频日本| 精品一区二区国语对白| 午夜欧美视频在线观看| 亚洲色图19p| 久久久亚洲国产美女国产盗摄| 欧美年轻男男videosbes| av欧美精品.com| 国产成人免费视频网站高清观看视频 | 一区二区三区高清不卡| 中文字幕精品在线不卡| 欧美精品一区二区三区很污很色的| 欧美最猛性xxxxx直播| 99视频精品全部免费在线| 久久99久久久久久久久久久| 婷婷开心久久网| 亚洲已满18点击进入久久| 一区二区中文字幕在线| 国产午夜久久久久| 精品国产污网站| 欧美顶级少妇做爰| 欧美亚洲另类激情小说| 91丨九色丨国产丨porny| 国产毛片一区二区| 老司机精品视频线观看86| 日韩黄色免费电影| 亚洲综合成人在线| 亚洲免费在线播放| 亚洲欧美在线视频观看| 国产精品区一区二区三区| 久久久不卡网国产精品二区| 精品伦理精品一区| 日韩一区二区三区视频| 欧美日韩国产首页| 欧美精选一区二区| 欧美日韩不卡一区二区| 欧美日韩在线播放| 欧美日韩中文另类| 欧美日韩一区二区三区在线看 | 日本不卡高清视频| 日韩精品久久久久久| 日韩精彩视频在线观看| 香蕉成人伊视频在线观看| 国产激情视频一区二区在线观看| 日韩av不卡一区二区| 日韩中文字幕区一区有砖一区 | 日韩视频一区二区在线观看| 日韩午夜三级在线| 日韩免费观看2025年上映的电影| 欧美一区三区二区| 日韩一级免费一区| 精品国产网站在线观看| 久久综合视频网| 久久久久久久久久看片| 国产亚洲精品超碰| 国产精品乱码一区二三区小蝌蚪| 中文字幕永久在线不卡| 亚洲美女一区二区三区| 亚洲午夜一区二区三区| 日韩综合在线视频| 九一九一国产精品| 国产麻豆欧美日韩一区| 成人免费视频国产在线观看| 99久久99久久精品免费看蜜桃| 91福利小视频| 欧美夫妻性生活| 日韩欧美aaaaaa| 欧美激情一区二区在线| 亚洲色图欧洲色图| 五月婷婷激情综合网| 麻豆国产欧美一区二区三区| 国产伦精品一区二区三区在线观看| 国产成人在线影院| 99精品国产91久久久久久| 欧美亚洲国产怡红院影院| 这里是久久伊人| 久久亚洲精精品中文字幕早川悠里| 国产日产欧美一区二区三区| 亚洲欧洲综合另类| 亚洲二区在线观看| 紧缚奴在线一区二区三区| 成人丝袜18视频在线观看| 91视视频在线观看入口直接观看www | 国产综合一区二区| 成人丝袜视频网| 欧美三级在线看| 日韩欧美aaaaaa| 中文字幕制服丝袜成人av| 亚洲高清不卡在线| 国产在线国偷精品产拍免费yy| 成人美女在线视频| 精品视频1区2区| 久久精品视频一区二区| 亚洲欧美日韩国产成人精品影院| 亚洲成av人片一区二区| 久久99久久久久久久久久久| av不卡免费在线观看| 欧美系列日韩一区| 久久久一区二区| 亚洲综合激情小说| 麻豆国产精品官网| 成人午夜碰碰视频| 欧美美女bb生活片| 久久久噜噜噜久噜久久综合| 亚洲精品成人悠悠色影视| 日韩中文字幕一区二区三区| 国产精品一二三四| 欧美私模裸体表演在线观看| www久久精品| 亚洲午夜视频在线| 久久精品999| 色婷婷久久久综合中文字幕| 欧美成人bangbros| 亚洲免费av在线| 麻豆成人久久精品二区三区小说| youjizz久久| 日韩三级在线免费观看| 日韩理论电影院| 青青草国产精品亚洲专区无| 成人国产免费视频| 欧美一区二区三区四区在线观看| 亚洲少妇30p| 老色鬼精品视频在线观看播放| 99精品视频在线观看免费| 欧美一级免费观看| 亚洲卡通欧美制服中文| 久久66热偷产精品| 在线视频你懂得一区| 久久久久久黄色| 丝袜国产日韩另类美女| 97超碰欧美中文字幕| 国产亚洲人成网站| 日本成人在线网站| 色综合久久综合网欧美综合网| 久久久蜜桃精品| 美女视频黄免费的久久 | 成人av电影观看| 久久九九久精品国产免费直播| 五月天网站亚洲| 在线亚洲人成电影网站色www| 国产亚洲一区二区在线观看| 蜜臀精品久久久久久蜜臀| 在线观看www91| 亚洲视频资源在线| 成人免费视频视频| 国产午夜亚洲精品理论片色戒| 蜜桃av一区二区在线观看|