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| Nov 30, 2007 03:07 |   |
 | As we talked about China's robust growth, we oftern ignored many migrating farmers. Without migrating farmers, China's prosperous scene will be compromised to a large extent. Here, can we talk about the benefits and harms of the constant flow of migrating farmers into cities? My friend has written a short paper about this question. Here it goes: A constant flow of migrating farmers into cities may put much pressure on city services and public facilities, and cause a rising crime in urban areas. With many migrating farmers moving to work in cities, cities are becoming more and more crowded, putting much pressure upon transportation, housing, sanitation, education, employment and so on. City services and public facilities are being strained to a breaking point. With the sharp rise of migrating farmers in cities, the criminal rate also increased. Not a single day passes without the report of someone being robbed, kidnapped, murdered or raped. According to Deng Yuanhong, Deputy Procurator for Nanjing, in the period 2004-2005, 78 cases of rape were allegedly committed by migrating farmers in four districts of Nanjing, accounting for 48% of all such cases in the districts. Do you agree with him? If not, what are your viewpoints? |
| Dec 2, 2007 20:36 | #1 |
| This is a biased judgement of migrating farmers. Imagine, without migrating farmers, would there have been so many skyscrapers? Would the streets have been so clean? China's migrating farmers have been an underrepresented group for a long tine. In big cities, the discrimination against migrating farmers is rife. Their rights are often infringed by the ruthless employers. Despite of the booming real estate market, the construction workers are underpaid. |
| Dec 2, 2007 23:00 | #2 |
| Why blame it all on the migrant farm workers. Consider their lot for a moment. Yes they come to the city looking for that dream - of earning enough money to put their kids thru school. When they arrive the only skills they have are fit for labouring, shovelling sand and cement on fancy new residential buildings for the nouveau rich of today's China. They, the farmer - lets drop the term MIGRANT since they are strictly speaking not migrants, they are Chinese Nationals working transient part-time jobs around their own Nation - these farmers are underpaid, live in shanties on their work sites, eat Y1 bowls of rice and noodles at makeshift street kitchens and barely get a chance to go home for the holidays on overcrowded and for them expensive trains and buses. Despair and destitution will drive people to desperate behaviour especially in the face of an affluence that they know they will never experience. The above report appears to be poorly researched with and unbalanced look at the life of these farmers transplanted to the alien environment of big already overcrowded cities. Perhaps they should be encouraged to stay with their farms doing what they know and already do well. There is something seriously wrong in the farming industry if so many farmers want to leave???? |
| Dec 3, 2007 03:36 | #3 |
| GUEST121 | Quotation: Perhaps they should be encouraged to stay with their farms doing what they know and already do well. There is something seriously wrong in the farming industry if so many farmers want to leave???? Yes, there is something wrong: urbanization. If these farmers stay in the countryside, they will stay in poverty. Farming can't support their families. They can't send their kids to college. Without knowledge, their children and grandchildren will be left in poverty. It will be a vicious circle. |
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