China's modernization to benefit the people equally

[beijingwalker]

China's modernization to benefit the people equally​

 

[beijingwalker]

No one is being left behind, essence of the Chinese communism.

Abuluoha village, China's last village without a road, is connected to the outside world with its new road in Butuo county, Sichuan province as seen in June, 2020. [Photo/XINHUA]

 

[beijingwalker]

Roads and free government housing projects reached the remotest mountains in Tibetan region to help eliminate poverty

 

[Iñigo]

I often have the impression that in Asia the word "communism" has to be translated most of the time by "patriotism" or "communitarianism" or ... I don't know what word to use to untangle this tangle of words.

If we compare the housing market in British Hong Kong and the housing market in Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, we could conclude that Lee Kuan Yew, an example of an liberal capitalist, happened to be a 'communist' because the "father/motherland" being common is always suspected of being "communist".

In any case, it is one thing to manufacture screws or cultivate the land, and another thing to provide health care, education and housing.

 

[VCheng]

No one is being left behind, essence of the Chinese communism.

Never in human history have so many people been lifted out of poverty so quickly. Quite the achievement!

 

[beijingwalker]

850 million people had been lifted out of poverty in China in 40 years, in profit only based capitalist countries, this is unimaginable, cause the huge investments to help the poor may never have a chance to be recovered. Western countries tend to spend the money on the rich, China spends the money on the poor.

 

[Abid123]

If only we had leaders like this in Pakistan...

 

[VCheng]

850 million people had been lifted out of poverty in China in 40 years,

That is awesome. What others do or do not is up to them.

(Such dickhelicoptering is never good, it only detracts from your claims and shows them as being a disingenuous way of putting the other types of systems down, revealing the deep insecurities within you.)

 

[S10]

The biggest challenge is not absolute poverty, but wealth inequality. People lose motivation if they have little means of climbing the social ladder, which is why you have the laying flat movement and declining birth rate. Housing affordability is a huge issue as properties are treated as investments and local government depend on revenue from land sales. Young people are priced out of markets and their spending power get eroded with heavy mortgage payments, not to mention social mobility is starting to slow down significantly. There is also the issue of a aging population that's going to heavily impact China in 10 years.

If CPC wants to keep their rule secure, they need to tackle the above issues.

 

[beijingwalker]

If the government doesn't help the poor, no one will help them

which is why you have the laying flat movement

They are not poor, the real poor can never afford "laying flat", they are just lazy rich kids who like to live off their parents.

 

[S10]

They are not poor, the real poor can never afford "laying flat", they are just lazy rich kids who like to live off their parents.

First of all, laying flat is doing the bare minimum to get by, not being unemployed. These are people that found it difficult to climb the social-economic ladder due to limited social mobility. Young Chinese work longer hours than their parents did with little to show for it. Dismissing it as a lazy kid living off parents is a vast simplication of the issue and part of the reason why no traction is made towards meaningful work and housing reforms. Population will keep shrinking and aging while housing issue will increasingly hit the economy with dismissive attitude like that.

 

[Chute]

First of all, laying flat is doing the bare minimum to get by, not being unemployed. These are people that found it difficult to climb the social-economic ladder due to limited social mobility. Young Chinese work longer hours than their parents did with little to show for it. Dismissing it as a lazy kid living off parents is a vast simplication of the issue and part of the reason why no traction is made towards meaningful work and housing reforms. Population will keep shrinking and aging while housing issue will increasingly hit the economy with dismissive attitude like that.

You are one of the better Chinese posters I have seen in this forum.... I have actually learned things from reading your posts (can't be said for most others here).

I remember lot of your COVID related posts pertaining to China recently.

Keep up the good work.

 

[beijingwalker]

First of all, laying flat is doing the bare minimum to get by, not being unemployed. These are people that found it difficult to climb the social-economic ladder due to limited social mobility. Young Chinese work longer hours than their parents did with little to show for it. Dismissing it as a lazy kid living off parents is a vast simplication of the issue and part of the reason why no traction is made towards meaningful work and housing reforms. Population will keep shrinking and aging while housing issue will increasingly hit the economy with dismissive attitude like that.

Social media just hypes everything up, I don't see anyone lying flat in Beijing, not much difference between now and before the social media term "lying flat" was created.