China's income gap widens

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

Factories have closed, forcing millions of workers to return to their rural families who depend on their incomes.

The huge divide in Chinese living standards is apparent in the armies of humbly dressed men and women hauling carts piled with boxes, discarded appliances and other scrap for recycling through city streets.

It is also seen in the beggars prowling city subway lines and street corners, and in the rundown ghettos and shantytowns in and around city suburbs. Many of the migrant workers now heading back to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday that begins Jan. 25 will have no jobs to return to.

 

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_...na_income_gap_4

[GZBILL]

Factories have closed, forcing millions of workers to return to their rural families who depend on their incomes.

The huge divide in Chinese living standards is apparent in the armies of humbly dressed men and women hauling carts piled with boxes, discarded appliances and other scrap for recycling through city streets.

It is also seen in the beggars prowling city subway lines and street corners, and in the rundown ghettos and shantytowns in and around city suburbs. Many of the migrant workers now heading back to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday that begins Jan. 25 will have no jobs to return to.

 

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_...na_income_gap_4

 

Yup. Not a pretty picture.

[Yuanyang]

Factories have closed, forcing millions of workers to return to their rural families who depend on their incomes.

The huge divide in Chinese living standards is apparent in the armies of humbly dressed men and women hauling carts piled with boxes, discarded appliances and other scrap for recycling through city streets.

It is also seen in the beggars prowling city subway lines and street corners, and in the rundown ghettos and shantytowns in and around city suburbs. Many of the migrant workers now heading back to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday that begins Jan. 25 will have no jobs to return to.

 

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090116/ap_on_...na_income_gap_4

 

Yup. Not a pretty picture.

... and even more factories will close this year and millions more will be without work.