The Unseen China - Chapter 1

In this thirty-minute documentary we propose to look at how China's one billion unseen ordinary citizens has been affected by China's economic transition. And we show that corruption in economic reforms has left many Chinese poor and angry.




Jiang Xueqin & Brian Keeley "The Unseen China" 2003

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• workers

[BobLeKatt]

China is soooooooo clean.

[nyran125]

only in China could the great wall have been built.

I no longer buy Xbox related stuff , or Sony, or Apple products. Ive limited my gear to only ireland, Germany and other country made products. Its disgusting these billion dollar industrys cant even negotiate with FoxConn and demand better work environments

[hilletehnoob]

there are pros and cons in every change,however the people that got out of poverty compared to the people who got poor doesnt lie,china is creating wealth everyday and is becoming the largest economy,soon their will have an economy powerfull enough to redistribute and provide a better live for chineses,something impossible in communist times since the economy was estagnated and the country was felling very behind western ones,capitalism only triumphed because communism sucked EVERYWHERE.

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

check out my "beware china anything" playlist

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

starting to happen here in US. slowly but surely coming in our future too.

[Seiku]

Someone actually suggested in the comments that the pollutant, outdated and dangerously over crowded railroad system in India is successful? Wow

Most of you people only look at the "Seen" never the "Unseen".

[glsblink]

these story is same as what happen to US and the rest of the world. The business man buy & sell company and bribe the government official and tell mid and lower class people to fuck off. So these is not new. Is happen thru out the world.

[xxxdieselyyy2]

@coleloto ------------Consumption of everything, from cars to meat is up for millions.--------------->When Chinese go 2 work in cities, u have an oversupply of labor in cities. So if supply goes up too much, prices- as in- wages come down by the equal factor. And in capitalist China, wages are rising MUCH MUCH slower compared 2 prices.

A Chinese worker had it better in Mao times w/ food, school, house etc. But today MANAGERS have it better MUCH but workers are screwed. That's the diff.

[xxxdieselyyy2]

@coleloto -------------->U don't "need" 2 privatize state enterprises. Look at India. BSNL is a state run Internet company- it competes AND SUCCEEDS against almost all private sector players here. Look at AMUL DIARY. It is a cooperative. It still runs and succeeds better than Kraft, Britania and other corporates. Look at INDIAN RAILWAYS- state run and voted the best value 4 money worldwide.

U only suffer "inefficiency" in terms of MARGINAL profit, but u r running costs are well covered.

[coleloto]

Privatization is painful, but needed in all post-socialist economies. It's happening in eastern Europe, it's happening in China. State enterprises, which prioritize employment over profit, need constant state help and are unefficient.

Chinese villigers are allowed to work in the cities, instead of being forced to work in subsistence agriculture. GINI = inequality is rising, but incomes are a lot higher than before. Consumption of everything, from cars to meat is up for millions.