People & Power - Moving China - 14 Nov 07

[wang4eba]

Those Chinese people even they are very poor, but they don't have debt.

[2fengxian]

The trash collector's story is too emotional because they work their ass off just to pay for their child's education. these people are what i call true hero.

[messalini]

Arabian AJ like to offend Chinese nation I know. It was interesting to discover during the Lhasa riot when nazi Tibetans looted more than 1000 Chinese owned enterprises,beat more than 400 non Tibetans 28 of them to death, Aljazeera was attacking Chinese people along with CNN,BBC forgetting by Tibetans burned down single mosque which was standing there.

[schattenjedi]

捏造を注意してよ。

[doooooohh]

not everything can be best.. the diffrent betweeen usa and china is.. usa keep critieses everything china do wrong... while they never look at them self..

[IPelesic]

Those pictures we can find in NY City, Washington DC, and everywhere in America, but all people in China and America are not poor. Then, what's difference. We can see problems all around the World, but we can't see problems in our backyard. In Communist China today live about 1322 millions of people, and we are borrowing money from them, what means, they are not all poor like those people in video, or millions of hungry people in America. What is a point of this video!?

[yuloworld]

some on all world...

not only china~

usa also....

[gjanie]

This is also very common in Latin American countries. Behind those high rising buildings there are dozens of people living in squalid conditions.

[vincentbluegrey]

IN 10 years China will rule the world.

[gjanie]

I hope NOT!!

[deepeeeh]

Why not? They're friendly and hard-working.

[onegoodman66]

this is the generation who had to sacrifice at the early stage of China's economic reform. This is the pain you can't skip. In today's China, very few migrant workers are living life like this. In the developed provinces (Guangdong,Shanghai etc) there is now a labor shortage cz' farmers' life has been significantly improved and few ppl migrates to big cities. Things have got better, but these migrant workers won't be forgotten.

[justjeshb]

I am not sure the city-dweller dispise the migrant workers, I think they just feel a bit guilty?

[saveme1232]

the new generation of china will get a better life but we must remember that our parents made this possiblé..!!!!

[tickletum]

Very sad video, I hope China improves.

[krist300]

This is a very sad video, but it is part of the pain China must experience to overcome huge problems with overpopulation, poverty and education.

[liuzhiyucom]

Thanks for the video, This is truth, but things are getting better now. I am a chinese ,and I was born in the rural China, there are lots of changes this year. hope china will be better.

[jimoshirenkuang]

look at that people. look at that huge bulidings. 10% GDP growth.that number is from tear and Sweat of that poor people . do not mentinon communist that word .what is communism ? everybody knows.that is a big joke.Malnutrition hard laber even like slavery and Communism country.some call chavez drma prezident . that it.totally right.chinese Civilization is cut down .Communism Disappeared day is Civilization rebirth day .

[bgturk]

One would think that since China as a communist country would at least have some form social equality, but the truth could not be further from the truth. Inequality in China is far worse than even in the USA, which is supposedly the msot capitalist nation on earth.

[KaneCyber]

I wish the poor and middle classes in this world could rise up against that 2% of rich people and make a better, equal government-Then again, in big governments comes more laws and then fascism so hmmm. I wish people could re-think Libertarianism, even though it's kinda heartless-At least it makes sense to an extent...

[KaneCyber]

Read Marx is all I can say I guess...There's a reason why even though Castro has brought very little to Cuba-BUT the education is one of the best there. I think even in Capitalist societies, that they should learn from this and make Capitalism succeed better then before.

[KaneCyber]

Well, people shouldnt DEBATE if China is Capitalist-Because it's like debating is Hitler was a nazi...Communism is "For each acording to his abulity, To each acording to his needs" and under Capitalism it's "Do what you will-as long as it's under the law" :)

[TechnojunkFactory]

Where is the compassion in the world?

[KaneCyber]

AND since that's one of the first docterines of socialist thought so yea...lol

[KaneCyber]

China makes me sad! Communism has died there-If it ever WAS there at all...Under Communism, a nation should make education FREE and give the worker's rights to them because THEY are the ones keeping it alive-NOT the rick people! COMMUNISM ALL THE WAY!!!

[LifeInAGame]

China provides free education for 9 years.

[kamapuaa2]

LifeInAGame: No it doesn't, it provides subsidized education, plus the subsidies are only available to residents of the province - Google "Hukou". With large coastal cities, the residence process generally takes years and isn't open to migrant workers, who are basically illegal immigrants.

[MustafaPresents]

The well-off will always need the poor, but want them out of sight.

[spiderofdoom]

I like that Al Jazeera will show this. Every current affairs program I've seen do a piece on China in Australia has to do with the resources boom and what an investment opportunity China is.

[spiderofdoom]

so much for the abolition of classes and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

[alt173]

Excellent report. This is a side of urban China that is little seen or discussed in the West.

[gasttheplast]

Peopel become rich with scap here

in Canada

[overoy]

i Fear china !!!

[KaneCyber]

It's not China you should fear-It's the governments of the world itself:> Fight for your rights, NOT for relaxation!