{"id":28357,"date":"2012-07-02T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=28357 "},"modified":"2012-07-02T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T13:10:00","slug":"28357-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=28357","title":{"rendered":"Police Clash with Workers in Shaxi"},"content":{"rendered":"
There’s a chance, certainly if you’re reading this in the Middle East or Africa, that those jeans you’re wearing were made in Shaxi.<\/span><\/div>
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It’s a typical Chinese factory town, just across the Pearl River estuary from Hong Kong.<\/span><\/div>
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There’s a Kentucky Fried Chicken here, probably not much more than an occasional treat on a migrant worker’s salary but a sign nonetheless that China’s decade-long export fuelled boom has been driving up incomes.<\/span><\/div>
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Hundreds of enterprises employ more than 40,000 workers who make tens of millions of garments a year.<\/span><\/div>
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Most are mass produced, ready-made goods, which is the reason that they are bound for those cheaper markets.<\/span><\/div>
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In the day or so that we’ve been here, we’ve met workers from Sichuan, Hebei, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, as well as other parts of Guangdong.<\/span><\/div>
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For years this has been China’s bargain with its mobile masses – steadily increasing wages in return for hard work far from home.<\/span><\/div>
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But increasingly it seems that the bargain is not always a happy one, and Shaxi’s recent outburst of civil strife appears to be further evidence of the mistrust and simmering tension in China’s migrant communities.<\/span><\/div>
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We kept a low profile on the streets of the town last night.<\/span><\/div>
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To say the least, foreign journalists are not always welcome at what China calls “mass incidents”.<\/span><\/div>
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We saw hundreds of chanting, marching riot police, moving in formation through the streets, the black plastic of their helmets and shields reflecting the street lights.<\/span><\/div>
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At one point, I found myself ducking behind a row of beanstalks in a tenement garden while about 80 police gathered outside, just one of dozens of such groups guarding government buildings, banks and petrol stations.<\/span><\/div>
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