China: Rising unemployment hits migrant workers

Millions of migrant workers in Beijing are returning to the countryside for Chinese new year. With new figures showing unemployment at 4% (and some experts predicting their own rates of up to 10%) many are unsure whether they will have a job to come back to

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[bushangels]

the unemployment in some American black communities are as high as 25% already.

[dajwilkinson]

Good video. We see China has the same problem as us in UK: a bloated service sector that's hit first and hardest by recession. At least many city workers "no longer required" in China have farming villages to return to and land to work so they can feed themselves while they weather the storm. We don't. I think we're in trouble

[swordofpakistan]

Free Tibet,Boycott totalitarian states,boycott slavery,boycott China.

[eastern2western]

@dajwilkinson disagree with you, those people can probably return to their village and make pennies, but most americans have a very strong social benefit system to fall back on and probably will get more benefits in one month than what those farmers can earn in a year of working on their farmland

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ulongkoror

I am not biased- I will condemn moral wrongs in western countries as well. My point is a lot (but not all) of Chinese are very stubborn and hostile to any criticism whatsoever

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@dajwilkinson

Another thing we have in common is that both in Britain and China unemployed people are stigmatised.

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@ulongkoror

There are plenty of Chinese racists who hate 'westerners'. Why don't you be consistent and criticise them as well?

I have heard some Chinese describe Europeans and Americans as 'imperialist white devils'

Just because China is economically strong, doesn't give it moral highground. China's appalling human rights record is well documented.

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Unemployed people are stigmatised in China.... not surprising for a country which routinley spits on human rights. Then again unemployed people are stigmatised everywhere. A product of our work-obsessed world.

[ulongkoror]

is amazing how ignorant and racist and shallow minded westerners are by looking at most of the comments here

do any of you realize that china is offically the second strongest nation in the world right now?

[wholegrainporn]

my cock is rising like the unemployment rate

[Crapidiot]

lol farmers

[peterrathod]

iv seen all of this with my eyes in china! u need to be in china to check out what is means of a "shithole" in poverty with dicatorship regime