This video shows what education means to every Chinese family. Students from poor family tends to go for a higher degree whereas most people from middle class do not care about that too much, undergraduate is often enough. When the students from poor family encountered difficulties as a graduate, they also tend to commit suicide. Too sad.
And then at the top they don't even care about education or anything for that matter. That's why the country is so fukked. The higher the status the lower the education...
from 2007-2010 I worked at Chime-long Paradise Park in Guangzhou and lived in Clifford Estates in Panyu...We would drive motorcycles out into the village's around Panyu on our day off and see the same poverty as shown here, away from the glitz and glamour of neon lights in the city...Many of these villagers had never seen an American in real life...I Loved my time living and working in China and Loved meeting the people after our shows...I was impressed by how Happy they were, even though their lives were so hard...People that have nothing, appreciate everything and those that have everything, appreciate nothing !!! I made many friends while there and was sad to leave them behind and they will be in my Heart and fond memories forever...
I've been in guangzhou and you can really see people who are struggling specially when you go to their market. Kids on their uniform , helping their parents selling vegetables on the pathways. Things that you can only see in the movies ,but never thought that it happen as well in China..
Same here in the US. The worst poverty is not in the cities but in rural areas. The media and public don't care because "out of sight out of mind." Sad.
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The US definitely faces poverty. However, living in the US alone, you are richer than 90% of the people on this planet. We have government welfare programs and shelters that are accessible, and our poverty is not near as widespread. I’d rather be thinking about how we can help everyone who has experienced this much misfortune.
They just quietly wait till urbanization forces people to move to cities and those who remain die. It is really sad that we are forced to live in grey and dull overcrowded cities meanwhile many beautiful and unique towns and villages are disappearing.
@@mckenziemitchell6044 LoL ...when was the last time you seen the political elite visits the slums in the US ? You can't even take care of your veterans let alone the homeless !
E Tow Thank you for reiterating what I have already said about the US most definitely also being subject to poverty. Also, there are plenty of elites who address those who are poor specifically. Reread my comment and conduct some research on the elites of the US and their platforms/campaign promises. Also, my husband is in the military, and I am well aware of what it does and doesn’t provide. It’s a rapidly improving system that we have benefitted greatly from (those who have suffered most are unfortunately, primarily older vets) and we will continue to support legislation to help it thrive. My message is not that the US is better than China. My message is that us having poor people we need to care for doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye to others who may need what we can give, especially those who are in worse circumstances. It’s always amusing to me when foreigners try to address my “ignorance” with their own.
my hometown used to be like this , but those years have been change a lot ! The government actually helps some people which live in broken house to rebuild the new one .Also help us build the road to our village . My village is in Guang xi province.
I didn't really realize how "below the poverty line" these people were, until I heard that he made 400 yuan for a year's work. Considering that the factory workers I know gets paid 100 yuan a day.
Seems quite desperate. However, we saw Hope too. Despite the poverty, the son still went to college. He might be the key to pull his whole family out of poverty.
Gunda Guy in China, if you’re hardworking, you always find a job. There are many unemployed people just because they are lazy or they imagine “decent” and “well-paid” jobs far beyond their abilities.
I feel bad for not thinking of the poor. All I thought of was about how pitiful I am. Everyday the privileged ignore the needy. Thank you SCMP for opening our eyes.
@@SpecialPenguinnn Yes, like how America bestowed unto the people of Libya and Iraq basic human rights and democracy, and subsequently improved their lives, right? Grow up, you imbecile.
Douglas Morato I think its 2300RMB a month, because the man in the video said he made around around 8000RMB a year. Even with 2300RMB a month its still hard imo
Which part of the Xiaoguancheng is this? There are 4 natural settlements in this administrative unit. There is a report that life has changed in a local report 5 months after this video is posted.
I can sense the negativity in the video and the BGM gives you an even depressing feeling. In the video, it also implies that only well-connected people are able to get the poverty relief fund. It is definitely true in some cases, but the situation has improved a lot since the drastic anti-corruption effort was strengthened.
@The Mythbuster you know in india the cost of living is way cheaper therefore even veing hdi low and having a tremendius population unlike western society they have infrastructyre for poor ppl the same they can enjoy same food space clothings in west if u r poor or homeless u cant even afford bread even in china stuff gets like that just seeing hdi in dollar wont imply the way of living as the same way plus india has a parrallel economy that is money that is not accounted in gdp which is estimated to be quite close to around the same as gdp. So i think hdi is a well parameter but many factors rule in also chinas expanding size is gonna result in wealth and expansion of bigger coties compared to villages but the govt can fix such problems u see
And this phenomenon of gap between rich and poor is not just limited to developing countries but others such as capitlaist usa where top 10% holds about 50 % of the wealt of the country compared to 90% and this gap is likely to increase. But the term poor wont be referred to any of these 90 percent as the living cost is higher than the rest of the world on avg
According to survey report 73% of Indian economic wealth has concentrated in the hand of 1% . Unemployment is severe. Huge salary gap. Please visit Indian hospitals you will understand the real situation of health facilities. India is the country where you can find out most number of malnourished and undernourished children in the world. Huge number of hungry people , just look at Hunger Index. Asia's largest slam is in India. Just go there you will find out the real situation.
@@sigma8112 nah there is no country where infact the gap is this wide another reasons is that survey upon india are not credible enough as pointed out by former iim proffessor and economists mr jai hari prasad who told to make the survey criteria appropriate to surveyers as the data and its interpretation was illogical as the data was processed on simple logic without even considering several factors. Hence unemployment is a problem literally everywhere but it depends on its magnitude.
The fact that they don't often receive and hear about the reliefs from the national government is so sad and heartbreaking. The government should do something about it cause they are gravely in need.
you know in india the cost of living is way cheaper therefore even veing hdi low and having a tremendius population unlike western society they have infrastructyre for poor ppl the same they can enjoy same food space clothings in west if u r poor or homeless u cant even afford bread even in china stuff gets like that just seeing hdi in dollar wont imply the way of living as the same way plus india has a parrallel economy that is money that is not accounted in gdp which is estimated to be quite close to around the same as gdp. So i think hdi is a well parameter but many factors rule in also chinas expanding size is gonna result in wealth and expansion of bigger coties compared to villages but the govt can fix such problems u see
It's brutal but human society has always been more or less like this for thousands of years except during the "communist era" in China when majority of people were equally poor.
It takes time for a country of 1.7 billion people to alleviate everyone out of extreme poverty. Soon enough, these people will have more capital. They're located in Hebei province, on the unfortunate east side of Beijing proper. I'll give them 5 years, because the capital growth of China is THAT impressive. And than Western media can complain about how China is destroying old structures, destroying unique communities, and is wrecking havoc with the environment.
The problem is there are no banks and ATM in these villages and the money is hand out in cash. The remoteness of these places, caused the person who gets the money have the power to delay in handling the cash out.
Hong Shi what if they have ATM and money, but not the right infrastructure nor the skill to increase their life quality? I dont think money is the right answer for this ( give them money and they will spend it in one day not knowing on what to buy except food to survive ) Local goverment support is their best hope to increase their life quality.
The tuition and living expenses of Chinese universities are very cheap. There are also grants and interest-free student loans for poor students. The tuition of 4 years of general undergraduate course is less than 40000 yuan. The job in first-tier city after the university graduates, at least 6000 yuan a month after graduationcan, they can pay off debt at most one year.
In Capitalism, the riches will attract more and more money, like a magnet. While the poors will drive away wealth. You need a strong hands ( usually the government) to relocate the wealth. It's the same situation in a family. Weak family members (usually the women and children) will feed on little than the strong family members (Father and the Men).
WHETHERN people believe OR NOT. Everyone will be held accountable in the END of their lives for their actions. Scripture CLEARLY instructs to do charity. To much that is given MUCH is required!
What people conveniently forget about is this is a very common occurances in developing countries! For a better future, me and my brother are living in different countries and will probably forever be living apart from my parents in Indonesia.
This is Xiaoguancheng Village, in Nanmazhuang Township, Laiyuan County, the city of Baoding, Hebei province. Aerial map and your video shows that inhabitants settle along a river running north to south, where there are some flat lands for cultivation, beyond which are hills and mountains. Xiaoguancheng happens to be along the river corridor which has very little flat land. Could this be the reason that the village inhabitants are not farming? But they are still raising domestic animals. This landscape is not unique to this village, but is in all parts of China. It is not unusual for the village or town administrative to allocate cultivatable field to village inhabitants ready and willing to farm, in location slightly away from their home. So they can still farm they are willing to do so. I also know of villagers living close to hillside that raise goats, which are very capable of tackling steep slopes. From this video, it is still unclear that why are these villagers are considered very poor aside from that family with two disabled individuals. Why are they are not being more proactive ? During the last two decades, many villagers abandoned farming in their villages and went into major cities like Beijing to take up construction work. Now that those development are slowing down, they are back in their hometown, but many are not willing to farm again, aside from small patches of land raising vegetables for their own consumption. From the interview, it seems like the villagers knew of the poverty alleviation program and are just waiting for that to happen in their village. It should be noted that those extremely generous poverty alleviation projects for the minorities were applied mostly to those living in very inaccessible locations and unirrigatable lands.
It's sad how they want to work but yet no work is given to them. The ones who cannot work won't even get any govt help unless they know someone in govt.
President xi said no one will be left out. 800 million lifted out of poverty . 16 million still need help . The target was 2020 but because of trade wars and Covid disease etc , plans were delayed but surely will be done. Just keep healthy and the day will come.
no no no no. The only way to get out of poverty in China is to join the CCP. If you are not member of CCP you get nothing. You live poor for the rest of your life.
Lee Lee Gotta somehow find a way to convince the Chinese government to invest their time and money into transforming/re-innovating the place. Doubt it’s gonna happen though, lol.
@@Andy-hz2ef move them out to nearby cityies may be a better idea. Some towns and villages are just not great in location at all since they were built in ancient farming time before there were cars and rails and nothing really going on there.
@@zhihaoling3324 This seems like the most common: People who are really poor live somewhere very remote, hard to drive, low rainfall.... It seems like poverty is intrinsic, you know, on a rocky hillside. YET there is clearly much advance. When I look at these people, I imagine how their grandparents might have lived, and also... there are not only poorer persons in the USA, but something we don't often mention: There are untold millions of people in the most dire poverty in our empire, or whatever you call it. I don't think anyone in a poor village in China wants to move to Guatemala or anything.
😭😭😭 Thank you for bringing light to people who are forgotten. Pray the Chinese government will reach them and help these people. Abolishing poverty should be for the entire country, not just targeted areas.
Even this figure of 16 million people... it's clearly declining AND is around ONE PER CENT of the gigantic population! This is EXCELLENT performance, nobody else even comes close as far as I know.
It's amazing that this is a global trend, in Colombia and many times in South America is also the same. But here (Colombia) the Upper concentration of wealth goes to only 5% of population in Urban Areas and 1% in Rural areas.
Is there any way to get in touch with the people in this video? I’d like to send them something. At the income level they’re at pretty much anything would help. Like if all of us watching this sent that family $5-$10 it would make a huge difference. Not sure if the Chinese government would allow it but it would be nice to directly help this family rather than just watching a video about them. Also on a side note, that’s a lot of pressure on that boy and a ridiculous impossible amount of debt for that man.
@@keicer5618 whether it's slow of fast the population is growing, along with the rest of the world, so the demand on resources will increase.. will China be able to feed itself in 20 years from now, will China become dependent on western countries..
I think they can earn the living if all the villagers group up together and work in a farming sector or making wooden furniture by the help of government.
That's why many chinese people moved in the Philippines, coz theres much enough water , especially in the capital city but now, there's a water shortage, so many migrants here mostly Chinese
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Notice how China's poverty line is defined as an annual income of 2,300 yuan - less than a dollar a day. The world bank although defines extreme poverty as living below $1.90 a day. But also, the world bank now has a classification system for countries with different standards. There, China is listed as a upper-middle-income with a poverty line of $5.50 a day. When using these measures, there are still 373 million people in poverty in China - more than 1/4 of the population... Edit (source): www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#1
I think you'd have to split up China much more discretely, cost of living in Beijing/Shanghai is waaay higher than Jinan which is also much higher than a village in Shaanxi. If someone in A villager might survive on 3000 yuan a year, but in Chongqing that's like a month. Simply looking at numbers is very limited
@@sersarsor Qualitative data like this film provide much to the understanding of this problem. Sadly though, governments consider someone as in poverty or not by doing exactly that: looking at the number of their annual income. My objection is that China's definition of an annual income of 2,300¥ is way below the international standards for even "extreme" poverty.
imagine other government use their way to govern China since 1949, we will be like in the 1970s now. People kept forgetting the fact that the ratio between poor and middle class is changing all the time during 15 year economic growth.
People in the comments bitter about their own countries' poverty (but aren't actually destitutes that don't have access to internet) arguing like they know the lives of those people they are arguing fo. What a joke and insult to all those who suffer. It is not your country vs their country. It isn't a competition of who is worse off. There are no winners. Everyone is fighting a battle of their own. Please don't make this about you or by extension, your country.
I wonder how that village even cropped up in the first place. I'd like to believe that living in a rural area simply means you have to farm for your own food, but obviously this isn't happening here.
In the past agriculture was communized and they would have farmed food and benefitted from it - but today this is not the case because of the criminal capitalist restoration.
Me parece claro che el trabajo hecho por el gobierno no ha sido muy eficaz en este pueblo, aún hay demasiado compromisos y problemas que necesitan más esfuerzo
when we said the word poor, it relative to rich. Most of people grow up in cities are poor too, although they earn more, but they have too spend more too. An example is: A is earning 3000 dollars a year, pay rental 500 dollars, but no house loan to pay for; B is earning 8000 dollars, but have to pay house load 6000 dollars. Which person should you think is poorer? You may said B still better, he got his own house. but remember, he need to pay the house loan for 30 years. and because of higher pay, the opportunity actual is less, especially during the period when economy is down, B is tend to suicide while A still can strike to survive.
Problem is how to resolve the poverty trap, if there is no any resource available for earning money, you should escape from there. Blind waiting makes you becoming more and more poor, to old man(woman) there is no way to make any choice on waiting of leaving, goverment has responsibility to send relief fund for guarant survive .
What is the poverty line for China I'm from America and it maybe different what we consider poverty is? I personally don't have much but I have more than others and I'm grateful for what I do have and I pray for ones who have less than I do. ❤
@DA SB thanks for the information. College is very expensive where I live and a lot of poor families can't afford to send their children to college. Your dad has a very honorable job helping people out of poverty. Many blessings to you and the ones you love ❤
All the comments I see now are mostly over a year old. This week there are many reports that China has eliminated poverty. Did this village get saved or forgotten in 2021? Let us know.
They live in a dry land,, so they should find crops that match with the soil, you wont get starved if you have lots of animals and veggies ,you don't need the city life,
Thx for posting the extreme poverty of China. That's why we called ourselves "developing", a long way to go.
Agree
Captain Jack Sparrow only poor Chinese in china, usually the rich Chinese move to foreign nations. Not all Chinese are poor.
@@BondJFK we are poor .agreed
china is a actually emerging - not developing but not reaching developed yet
a few billion from the Belt and Road BS scam and this guy and millions like him would be set.
This video shows what education means to every Chinese family.
Students from poor family tends to go for a higher degree whereas most people from middle class do not care about that too much, undergraduate is often enough. When the students from poor family encountered difficulties as a graduate, they also tend to commit suicide.
Too sad.
People from middle class usually have better conditions to take up advanced studies. Most PhD and Master students I know are from well-off families.
Education has always meant freedom, all over the world.
Skill in reality is more important than education in school
asian YT fact broo
And then at the top they don't even care about education or anything for that matter. That's why the country is so fukked. The higher the status the lower the education...
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from 2007-2010 I worked at Chime-long Paradise Park in Guangzhou and lived in Clifford Estates in Panyu...We would drive motorcycles out into the village's around Panyu on our day off and see the same poverty as shown here, away from the glitz and glamour of neon lights in the city...Many of these villagers had never seen an American in real life...I Loved my time living and working in China and Loved meeting the people after our shows...I was impressed by how Happy they were, even though their lives were so hard...People that have nothing, appreciate everything and those that have everything, appreciate nothing !!! I made many friends while there and was sad to leave them behind and they will be in my Heart and fond memories forever...
Yea they should free their people from tyranny...
I've been in guangzhou and you can really see people who are struggling specially when you go to their market. Kids on their uniform , helping their parents selling vegetables on the pathways. Things that you can only see in the movies ,but never thought that it happen as well in China..
Same here in the US. The worst poverty is not in the cities but in rural areas. The media and public don't care because "out of sight out of mind." Sad.
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The US definitely faces poverty. However, living in the US alone, you are richer than 90% of the people on this planet. We have government welfare programs and shelters that are accessible, and our poverty is not near as widespread. I’d rather be thinking about how we can help everyone who has experienced this much misfortune.
They just quietly wait till urbanization forces people to move to cities and those who remain die. It is really sad that we are forced to live in grey and dull overcrowded cities meanwhile many beautiful and unique towns and villages are disappearing.
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LoL ...when was the last time you seen the political elite visits the slums in the US ? You can't even take care of your veterans let alone the homeless !
E Tow Thank you for reiterating what I have already said about the US most definitely also being subject to poverty. Also, there are plenty of elites who address those who are poor specifically. Reread my comment and conduct some research on the elites of the US and their platforms/campaign promises. Also, my husband is in the military, and I am well aware of what it does and doesn’t provide. It’s a rapidly improving system that we have benefitted greatly from (those who have suffered most are unfortunately, primarily older vets) and we will continue to support legislation to help it thrive.
My message is not that the US is better than China. My message is that us having poor people we need to care for doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye to others who may need what we can give, especially those who are in worse circumstances.
It’s always amusing to me when foreigners try to address my “ignorance” with their own.
This video is not meant to make you feel lucky.
Right
my hometown used to be like this , but those years have been change a lot ! The government actually helps some people which live in broken house to rebuild the new one .Also help us build the road to our village . My village is in Guang xi province.
Inst youtube banned in China?
It is banded it ,but there are vpns to access
I didn't really realize how "below the poverty line" these people were, until I heard that he made 400 yuan for a year's work. Considering that the factory workers I know gets paid 100 yuan a day.
Seems quite desperate. However, we saw Hope too. Despite the poverty, the son still went to college. He might be the key to pull his whole family out of poverty.
Or be a unemployed graduate
Gunda Guy in China, if you’re hardworking, you always find a job. There are many unemployed people just because they are lazy or they imagine “decent” and “well-paid” jobs far beyond their abilities.
@@gundaguy515 If he wants he can always find a job in China.
Ancient Chinese proverb: Sell your coat (most have only one coat), buy a book.
I really hope to know how he is doing now. I have no words for my respect for these proud and kind villagers
I feel bad for not thinking of the poor. All I thought of was about how pitiful I am. Everyday the privileged ignore the needy. Thank you SCMP for opening our eyes.
China needs time to slowly improve the lives of people. 40 years ago, most Chinese were extremely poor.
Yea maybe they should start with basic human rights and democracy to improve lives...
@@SpecialPenguinnn Yes, like how America bestowed unto the people of Libya and Iraq basic human rights and democracy, and subsequently improved their lives, right? Grow up, you imbecile.
@@SpecialPenguinnn you are wrong. although they are poor, but they have human rights. they have democracy.
@@youhuabing7827 I don't understand why you impose your ideas to other people
@@amiithan1905 You impose ideas on others? How the US imposed "democracy", *in the form of ballistic missiles killing a generous estimate of 500000+?*
If only helping people is as easy as typing this sentence.
That's sad. 2.300RMB per year you can't do anything here in China.
Really well done video and footages.
Douglas Morato I think its 2300RMB a month, because the man in the video said he made around around 8000RMB a year. Even with 2300RMB a month its still hard imo
@@briyanputra7861 it is true that the poverty line is 2300RMB for a household per year
The net income is 2300 RMB, I think that deduct living expenses
Yeshua is Lord. 2300 is what President Xi said, and 8000 is what the guy earned in a year. Sorry for the misconception 😂.
2300人民币是2010年的标准啦，中国标准每年提高百分之六左右，到2020是4000人民币。
my family among one of the poorest too but since then I left home and work to change the destiny of my family and finally
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This village looks droughts and scarcity of water...
Which part of the Xiaoguancheng is this? There are 4 natural settlements in this administrative unit. There is a report that life has changed in a local report 5 months after this video is posted.
thanks for bringing this up, I trust the media attention will push the government to get it fixed
I can't even image earning $347 a week let alone a year. Poor dudes
Cost of living different there.
Same
Young people left the village. Only elderly and young remains in village.
I can sense the negativity in the video and the BGM gives you an even depressing feeling. In the video, it also implies that only well-connected people are able to get the poverty relief fund. It is definitely true in some cases, but the situation has improved a lot since the drastic anti-corruption effort was strengthened.
How can I donate for him? Please help
Same in INDIA .only 10% belongs to upper and upper middle class dominate all social and economic indicators
@The Mythbuster you know in india the cost of living is way cheaper therefore even veing hdi low and having a tremendius population unlike western society they have infrastructyre for poor ppl the same they can enjoy same food space clothings in west if u r poor or homeless u cant even afford bread even in china stuff gets like that just seeing hdi in dollar wont imply the way of living as the same way plus india has a parrallel economy that is money that is not accounted in gdp which is estimated to be quite close to around the same as gdp. So i think hdi is a well parameter but many factors rule in also chinas expanding size is gonna result in wealth and expansion of bigger coties compared to villages but the govt can fix such problems u see
And this phenomenon of gap between rich and poor is not just limited to developing countries but others such as capitlaist usa where top 10% holds about 50 % of the wealt of the country compared to 90% and this gap is likely to increase. But the term poor wont be referred to any of these 90 percent as the living cost is higher than the rest of the world on avg
According to survey report 73% of Indian economic wealth has concentrated in the hand of 1% . Unemployment is severe. Huge salary gap. Please visit Indian hospitals you will understand the real situation of health facilities. India is the country where you can find out most number of malnourished and undernourished children in the world. Huge number of hungry people , just look at Hunger Index. Asia's largest slam is in India. Just go there you will find out the real situation.
@@sigma8112 nah there is no country where infact the gap is this wide another reasons is that survey upon india are not credible enough as pointed out by former iim proffessor and economists mr jai hari prasad who told to make the survey criteria appropriate to surveyers as the data and its interpretation was illogical as the data was processed on simple logic without even considering several factors. Hence unemployment is a problem literally everywhere but it depends on its magnitude.
Are you an Indian? If not please visit. If yes , then you consciously denying the facts
The fact that they don't often receive and hear about the reliefs from the national government is so sad and heartbreaking. The government should do something about it cause they are gravely in need.
same here in india poverty is to much
you know in india the cost of living is way cheaper therefore even veing hdi low and having a tremendius population unlike western society they have infrastructyre for poor ppl the same they can enjoy same food space clothings in west if u r poor or homeless u cant even afford bread even in china stuff gets like that just seeing hdi in dollar wont imply the way of living as the same way plus india has a parrallel economy that is money that is not accounted in gdp which is estimated to be quite close to around the same as gdp. So i think hdi is a well parameter but many factors rule in also chinas expanding size is gonna result in wealth and expansion of bigger coties compared to villages but the govt can fix such problems u see
"it's hard to say why society is like this today." wow, this run deep and I feel utterly awful about his helplessness.
It's brutal but human society has always been more or less like this for thousands of years except during the "communist era" in China when majority of people were equally poor.
这才是真实社会的运行规律，一点都不可怕，不参与社会化的生产，资源匮乏就只能这德行，你哪怕去城市认认真真的干点什么工作，也不至于这么生活，路都是自己选的，说到底还是中国的现代化还有路要走，你看那些烂屋，我就很高兴，那都是聪明人，知道改变命运，走出去了，参与社会了，不在一亩三分地上等死了。农业社会哪养的起这么多人
Thank you for reminding me on how lucky I am when compared to this poor but proud villagers.
Money is the bigger cancer of this society.
I am interested the 2021 update of this story, any improvement of their condition?
It takes time for a country of 1.7 billion people to alleviate everyone out of extreme poverty. Soon enough, these people will have more capital. They're located in Hebei province, on the unfortunate east side of Beijing proper. I'll give them 5 years, because the capital growth of China is THAT impressive. And than Western media can complain about how China is destroying old structures, destroying unique communities, and is wrecking havoc with the environment.
It's tragic as My grandma had to raise 5 kids in a small village as her husband had passed. it was very difficult for her in the village.
How is the condition of these people now? It has been a year since this video was published. Hope you follow up on them.
these chinese villagers are poor but they lived in the streets or slums or begs like poor people in india or america
They still live in brick houses and most probably situated on their own land.
The problem is there are no banks and ATM in these villages and the money is hand out in cash.
The remoteness of these places, caused the person who gets the money have the power to delay in handling the cash out.
Hong Shi what if they have ATM and money, but not the right infrastructure nor the skill to increase their life quality?
I dont think money is the right answer for this ( give them money and they will spend it in one day not knowing on what to buy except food to survive )
Local goverment support is their best hope to increase their life quality.
education is the only way to help them to get rid of thier poor situation. Maybe not this man's generation, his daughter.... Daughter's kids....
Rural india is far more worse...this village people are well dressed
Search about Kowloon...there that too goes away...China is India...
The tuition and living expenses of Chinese universities are very cheap. There are also grants and interest-free student loans for poor students. The tuition of 4 years of general undergraduate course is less than 40000 yuan. The job in first-tier city after the university graduates, at least 6000 yuan a month after graduationcan, they can pay off debt at most one year.
so sad Lord bless theses wonderful people they need it
Same things is happening in India.. I don't know why richer becomes more richer and poor becomes poorer.. 😭😭
In Capitalism, the riches will attract more and more money, like a magnet. While the poors will drive away wealth. You need a strong hands ( usually the government) to relocate the wealth.
It's the same situation in a family. Weak family members (usually the women and children) will feed on little than the strong family members (Father and the Men).
WHETHERN people believe OR NOT. Everyone will be held accountable in the END of their lives for their actions. Scripture CLEARLY instructs to do charity. To much that is given MUCH is required!
What people conveniently forget about is this is a very common occurances in developing countries! For a better future, me and my brother are living in different countries and will probably forever be living apart from my parents in Indonesia.
Is there a GoFundMe account for the family? If not, are you helping them ?
This is Xiaoguancheng Village, in Nanmazhuang Township, Laiyuan County, the city of Baoding, Hebei province.
Aerial map and your video shows that inhabitants settle along a river running north to south, where there are some flat lands for cultivation, beyond which are hills and mountains.
Xiaoguancheng happens to be along the river corridor which has very little flat land.
Could this be the reason that the village inhabitants are not farming? But they are still raising domestic animals.
This landscape is not unique to this village, but is in all parts of China. It is not unusual for the village or town administrative to allocate cultivatable field to village inhabitants ready and willing to farm, in location slightly away from their home. So they can still farm they are willing to do so.
I also know of villagers living close to hillside that raise goats, which are very capable of tackling steep slopes.
From this video, it is still unclear that why are these villagers are considered very poor aside from that family with two disabled individuals. Why are they are not being more proactive ?
During the last two decades, many villagers abandoned farming in their villages and went into major cities like Beijing to take up construction work. Now that those development are slowing down, they are back in their hometown, but many are not willing to farm again, aside from small patches of land raising vegetables for their own consumption.
From the interview, it seems like the villagers knew of the poverty alleviation program and are just waiting for that to happen in their village.
It should be noted that those extremely generous poverty alleviation projects for the minorities were applied mostly to those living in very inaccessible locations and unirrigatable lands.
It's sad how they want to work but yet no work is given to them. The ones who cannot work won't even get any govt help unless they know someone in govt.
President xi said no one will be left out. 800 million lifted out of poverty . 16 million still need help . The target was 2020 but because of trade wars and Covid disease etc , plans were delayed but surely will be done. Just keep healthy and the day will come.
no no no no. The only way to get out of poverty in China is to join the CCP. If you are not member of CCP you get nothing. You live poor for the rest of your life.
Man I spent $400 at the bar on Friday night. Seeing that young man with the pressure of improving his familys destiny makes me feel awful.
What dreadful amount utterly wasted!
That's why I don't go bars anymore.. Waste money there.
Be thankful everyday. At least they have a house to stay. Rather than homeless in a city.
So very sad. Makes me appreciate all the things I have, big or small
This breaks my heart!!!
CGTN will never show this..
South China Morning Post, how can i help these people? It breaks my heart.
Well, you could help one of them but not for all, to resolve this issue widely, it's a system project.
the problem is not money, they need job 。
Lee Lee Gotta somehow find a way to convince the Chinese government to invest their time and money into transforming/re-innovating the place. Doubt it’s gonna happen though, lol.
@@Andy-hz2ef move them out to nearby cityies may be a better idea. Some towns and villages are just not great in location at all since they were built in ancient farming time before there were cars and rails and nothing really going on there.
@@zhihaoling3324 This seems like the most common: People who are really poor live somewhere very remote, hard to drive, low rainfall.... It seems like poverty is intrinsic, you know, on a rocky hillside. YET there is clearly much advance. When I look at these people, I imagine how their grandparents might have lived, and also... there are not only poorer persons in the USA, but something we don't often mention: There are untold millions of people in the most dire poverty in our empire, or whatever you call it. I don't think anyone in a poor village in China wants to move to Guatemala or anything.
6:27 well they don't need to fear anymore, because you just speak for them here in youtube. And i'm sure the President of China will notice it
😭😭😭 Thank you for bringing light to people who are forgotten. Pray the Chinese government will reach them and help these people. Abolishing poverty should be for the entire country, not just targeted areas.
If there are so many of these poor people, then why do I read news that labour costs are going up and production moving to Vietnam?
How can they not reach there when there is a concrete road? I've watch someone climb mountains to help.
Millions of Americans fear this much more.
china is still a developing country and proverty can't be eliminated within a day.
Even this figure of 16 million people... it's clearly declining AND is around ONE PER CENT of the gigantic population! This is EXCELLENT performance, nobody else even comes close as far as I know.
It's amazing that this is a global trend, in Colombia and many times in South America is also the same. But here (Colombia) the Upper concentration of wealth goes to only 5% of population in Urban Areas and 1% in Rural areas.
Tent cities (帐篷城市) in America is just as bad.
The real China
These probably couldn't be made today, thanks.
SCMP, how come there is no follow up? That was 3 yrs ago!
China helped 13 million people out of poverty in 2018... but there are still 12 million of them... = =
Love the comparaison in statistics! China has done a lot to tackle poverty, but still needs to do more!
Is there any way to get in touch with the people in this video? I’d like to send them something. At the income level they’re at pretty much anything would help. Like if all of us watching this sent that family $5-$10 it would make a huge difference. Not sure if the Chinese government would allow it but it would be nice to directly help this family rather than just watching a video about them. Also on a side note, that’s a lot of pressure on that boy and a ridiculous impossible amount of debt for that man.
what do the mother and brother suffer from? the mother must have been more high functioning at one point if she married and had 2 children...
Honestly a village with satellite TV and cell phone connection... That's being rich in a different country....
Government should invest in the farmers, improve and develop the farms for the ever increasing population..
Population isn’t increasing
@@keicer5618 whether it's slow of fast the population is growing, along with the rest of the world, so the demand on resources will increase.. will China be able to feed itself in 20 years from now, will China become dependent on western countries..
Alza Mansfield nah population of China is projected to reach its peak around 2023 and then it’ll start to shrink
I think they can earn the living if all the villagers group up together and work in a farming sector or making wooden furniture by the help of government.
That's why many chinese people moved in the Philippines, coz theres much enough water , especially in the capital city but now, there's a water shortage, so many migrants here mostly Chinese
不挺好的么，不参与工业社会就要受穷啊，逼着农村人都进城，想靠政府福利过日子，早晚社会崩溃，中国没美元霸权吸血发福利，现实就是参与社会化活动吃肉喝汤，不参与就只能保证饿不死。幻想发个新闻就有政府帮着就脱贫吃福利了，这样的人是扶不起来的，自强才是唯一解，靠谁谁倒。最可耻的就是等着天上掉馅饼的渣子，上午发羊羔，下午就烧烤。
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Notice how China's poverty line is defined as an annual income of 2,300 yuan - less than a dollar a day. The world bank although defines extreme poverty as living below $1.90 a day.
But also, the world bank now has a classification system for countries with different standards. There, China is listed as a upper-middle-income with a poverty line of $5.50 a day. When using these measures, there are still 373 million people in poverty in China - more than 1/4 of the population...
Edit (source): www.worldbank.org/en/country/china/overview#1
I think you'd have to split up China much more discretely, cost of living in Beijing/Shanghai is waaay higher than Jinan which is also much higher than a village in Shaanxi. If someone in A villager might survive on 3000 yuan a year, but in Chongqing that's like a month. Simply looking at numbers is very limited
@@sersarsor Qualitative data like this film provide much to the understanding of this problem. Sadly though, governments consider someone as in poverty or not by doing exactly that: looking at the number of their annual income. My objection is that China's definition of an annual income of 2,300¥ is way below the international standards for even "extreme" poverty.
imagine other government use their way to govern China since 1949, we will be like in the 1970s now. People kept forgetting the fact that the ratio between poor and middle class is changing all the time during 15 year economic growth.
People in the comments bitter about their own countries' poverty (but aren't actually destitutes that don't have access to internet) arguing like they know the lives of those people they are arguing fo. What a joke and insult to all those who suffer. It is not your country vs their country. It isn't a competition of who is worse off. There are no winners. Everyone is fighting a battle of their own. Please don't make this about you or by extension, your country.
i feel so sorry for them. but for china, the goal is that less than 3% people in a county are below the poverty trap, not all of people.
and judging the fact the covid-19 started there in the first place but at least they recovered
Why doesn't their government help these poor people, so sad.
that goes to show, there are still worked to be done,
just hang in there.
Can’t believe this, I see Chinese people in my country and around the world shopping in Gucci LV Prada.... show rooms . Something is wrong here.
I wonder how that village even cropped up in the first place. I'd like to believe that living in a rural area simply means you have to farm for your own food, but obviously this isn't happening here.
In the past agriculture was communized and they would have farmed food and benefitted from it - but today this is not the case because of the criminal capitalist restoration.
Super prpfessional reporting
My mind always gets blown away on how can someone be fat in poverty.
Poor don't mean starve.
El gobierno Chino tiene que hacer algo para ayudar a estas personas, qué son el grupo más débil de la sociedad.
Watching this video makes feel like how lucky i am to living in the city
that government need give them a self sustain earning program, they cant forever feed them, they have to build them up
Shift the whole population out to better economic zone.
How can we help...is sad to see all this..there's no survival...
They are actually ok. There are lots people much worse than them in remote rural places . A long way to go.
Me parece claro che el trabajo hecho por el gobierno no ha sido muy eficaz en este pueblo, aún hay demasiado compromisos y problemas que necesitan más esfuerzo
when we said the word poor, it relative to rich. Most of people grow up in cities are poor too, although they earn more, but they have too spend more too.
An example is:
A is earning 3000 dollars a year, pay rental 500 dollars, but no house loan to pay for;
B is earning 8000 dollars, but have to pay house load 6000 dollars.
Which person should you think is poorer? You may said B still better, he got his own house. but remember, he need to pay the house loan for 30 years. and because of higher pay, the opportunity actual is less, especially during the period when economy is down, B is tend to suicide while A still can strike to survive.
This is so sad
Saw a video how a village rises above poverty . Link below.
Problem is how to resolve the poverty trap, if there is no any resource available for earning money, you should escape from there. Blind waiting makes you becoming more and more poor, to old man(woman) there is no way to make any choice on waiting of leaving, goverment has responsibility to send relief fund for guarant survive .
Poor people I feel for them. What can the USA do to help. These folks to get relief from this poverty life?
What is the poverty line for China I'm from America and it maybe different what we consider poverty is? I personally don't have much but I have more than others and I'm grateful for what I do have and I pray for ones who have less than I do. ❤
@DA SB Are the public schools free?
@DA SB thanks for the information. College is very expensive where I live and a lot of poor families can't afford to send their children to college. Your dad has a very honorable job helping people out of poverty. Many blessings to you and the ones you love ❤
这个村子的地理位置不行，只能让村里人搬迁到新建造的房子里，不能继续住这里，交通等等不好，怎么发展
So sad. The government should do more to help.
I wish we could start a GoFundMe page for the village. Surely somehow the money would never get to them the government would confiscate it.
Interessante.
Governments need to find a occupation for them to live on
I think they DO THAT, exactly! But it's not magic, it's not like they can just "snap their fingers", it's work! It's working!
All the comments I see now are mostly over a year old. This week there are many reports that China has eliminated poverty. Did this village get saved or forgotten in 2021? Let us know.
They live in a dry land,, so they should find crops that match with the soil, you wont get starved if you have lots of animals and veggies ,you don't need the city life,
the gov seems to be more likely to save the poor in Africa.
What's standar poverty in china ? 2 dolar /day ?
bowoR 16 yuan is enough for people , in rural place every thing is cheap, and they have land to grow vegetables wheat
I would like to see a response from the Chinese Government.