Good Article on Flaws Within China

Excerpt from good post on China, I am still in transition, so this type is what I will be posting for a day or so excerpt: “Is China unstable? Not yet. But while the Communist Party retains largely unchallenged control of China’ s government, the rapid transformation of a rural, peasant society into a 21st-century industrial power has produced real political, economic, and social strains. In recent decades, more than 200 million peasants — of a total population of 1.3 billion — have migrated from China’s rural interior to find work in cities, many of which sprang up virtually overnight (see below). There, uprooted peasants labor in primitive conditions with little job security. Many are also exposed, for the first time, to China’s newly affluent professionals and entrepreneurs, whose conspicuous consumption can stir resentment. Affluent Chinese, says Yi Zhao, a civil servant who lives in China’s heavily industrialized Guangdong province, “collect wealth at the expense of the poor.” Are workers likely to rebel? They already have. China was rocked this year by strikes and demonstrations — some violent — by workers demanding better pay and conditions. The boom has made tens of thousands of Chinese so rich that sales of Mercedes-Benzes, Jaguars, and Rolls-Royces soared more than 100 percent in a single year. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of others still live in primitive huts and scrape out a subsistence living. Widespread poverty drags China’s per capita income down to $3,678 — roughly on par with Angola and Azerbaijan. Tensions over rising inequality have even been linked to a series of horrific attacks on schoolchildren by alienated, middle-aged men who seemed to feel left behind by China’s new prosperity.

Chinese Recycling Center

I think thats what they are doing…

Crowds in China

Starting My Vacation Post…

Leaving soon for my vacation, I’ve done all that is necessary, fed the rabbit, changed rmb to dollars and purchased gifts. My sis is ecstatic, I dont mean to brag but I am a pretty good brother and to show that love knows no bounds,I have pulled out all the stops and gotten her not only a Channel bag, but a Hermes one as well… Yeah I rock. Dont think I ‘d stoop to buying fakes either, the sales person told me with a straight face that the bags are 100% real. Two problems, however, a nephew in the family. Last time I sent him a little old time Qin dynasty suit, a Chinese original. The kid loved it, slept in it, and then it turned his skin blue , this is true, I blogged it. So I dont think my sis is upset with me, but I am nervous about getting him anything, I will probably pick up something from back home that says made in China and proudly present it to him. My brother, however poses a bigger problem, he has the ability to reason so I must be a little more crafty with him. I have gotten him nothing but am scrambling. I think my best option is to get a new T-shirt and stencil the word ADIDRAS on it, tell him its a Chinese original….

Delivery Driver in China

I will be taking off for my vacation, so may just do a photo dump till I can blog again.

Quality Control in China

Life is cheap in China, so you can imagine how they treat workers, or maybe you cant. My friend was telling me about his tour to a fireworks factory in China. The quality control mechanism is quite ingenious. What they do is build a structure with little brick cubicles. In each cubicle is an old woman wrapping up the fireworks, they look like Cubans rolling cigars. The quality controls is that each woman is a brick enclosed space, thus if there is an explosion and there are many, then only one person dies, but not the whole building.