The Chinese villagers who fear they can never escape the poverty trap
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In 2015, China launched a wide-ranging campaign meant to wipe out poverty across China in just five years. The programme was meant to lift the entire population above the poverty line, ensuring every family would have an annual income above 2,300 yuan (US$340) by 2020.
The national campaign has made some headway, with official statistics showing the number of rural poor has dropped from 82.39 million in 2012 to 16.6 million at the end of 2018, and another 10 million population on target to escape the poverty level in 2019.
But people of one village in Hebei province are among those waiting for poverty alleviation efforts to reach them. Xiaoguancheng had been earmarked to receive government support as part of the government campaign.
The South China Morning Post first visited the village in 2018, and when we returned a year later, we found little had changed and for some families, conditions had grown even worse.
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.
The things I take for granted :(
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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.
So true McDowell County/West Virginia, Washington DC/ Maryland, Michigan/Detroit/Flint just to name a few ! ...LoL
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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 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...
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 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.
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。
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
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
Where would you have the money to get on RUclips as it costs to use VPN!
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Money is the bigger cancer of this society.
How can I donate for him? Please help
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.
I am interested the 2021 update of this story, any improvement of their condition?
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....
so sad Lord bless theses wonderful people they need it
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.
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 breaks my heart!!!
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.
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.
Tent cities (帐篷城市) in America is just as bad.
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.
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!
These probably couldn't be made today, thanks.
that goes to show, there are still worked to be done,
just hang in there.
CGTN will never show this..
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.
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.
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
Watching this video makes feel like how lucky i am to living in the city
Honestly a village with satellite TV and cell phone connection... That's being rich in a different country....
that government need give them a self sustain earning program, they cant forever feed them, they have to build them up
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
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
Shift the whole population out to better economic zone.
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.
Super prpfessional reporting
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!
So sad. The government should do more to help.
1 billion dollar can solve all these people problems. Build them a new modern house in a new plan town. That village in an old area with no sewers, plumbing, electricity. If China can build a 30 story building in 30 days. They can house them all.
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
Sizz Flair I pray that the President will care tho
Interessante.
My family in China doesn’t even have a house
They build their own out of wood and a tent
I know people in England who live in single rooms and I have seen people living underneath bridges in cardboard boxes and tents.
@DA SB No they don't. They have a old and used car. All the animals makes lots of mess and they don't make a lot of profit out of it because the cows aren't "high quality".
"Out of sight ,out of mind."old western saying.... hope your VIDEO is seen by the local governments and hierarchy governments, and they can help,,instead of helping themselves to the trough as usual..as government workers do all over the world.
Something doesn't add up here you get plenty of chickens running around and satellite dish on the property. You did even care to notify the authority of their plight. Things don't add up here.
Actually you are right on bull 's eye. Chinese people doesn't show riches in the country side, to avoid being rob or harassed by village head and neighbours.
In other words. They still have a long way to go
best wishes to my people
I think the worst thinking is kind of "China is not alone in this, other countries have poor people, too". This attitude never be helpful to make the world better. Each country's govt should learn from these video and/or other video about other countries and/or go to see the poor people themselves to help make their own people get out of poverty!
Jack Ma needs to help them.
SCMP: Do you ever report on the great things about China?
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He owes 50,000RMB($7,450)
That sounds right. College tuition has been fixed around $800 (5000 RMB) per year since 2000. The government set the tuition at such a low price so that most families can afford it. I took a college tuition loan of $2200 (18,000 RMB) 18 years ago, and it was quite a burden back then.
Wows...
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Most posts about China are eye opening.
这一期黑的不专业啊、那女孩脚上的Nike的标志好闪亮啊
China president is sitting up in parliament in a nice suite and all the amenities of thr rich while these poor people live in squalor. The house looked they have been bombed.
Where is the communist party?
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SHOULD START KICKING THOSE OFFICERS WHO DO NOT DO THEIR JOBS IN CARING FOR THE POOR VILLAGES.
If tge Uyghurs have the lives of others, they will say unfair treatment then they harm and accuse falsely
Give them farmland
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
偏远山区就是这样，这里已经没有年轻人了，年轻人都去城市了
What the real definition of poverty? I saw many china's poverty video, they have large land. If you own the land, isn't it just necessary to develop it? Li Ziqi proof that. SCMP owned by jack ma, he can develope it with gov backup him, instead record it just to make video for adsanse 🙄
They are not starve and they don't own large land , the villagers own the land equally, so no one have large land. You can use these land to make food for yourself, but you can't lift off poverty only by it.
these people are very poor , at lease they have old house to live , in USA super rich country but a lot of home less live on the side walk .
I see them every day! There are more beggars and people just sleeping on the side walk and in bus stops every year.
China’s got a long way to go yet .
China too big. No wonder communism. But yah the balance is nice. Liberalism or leniency at times...
The poorer the more negative they are, waiting for the government to help
still waitin'' Zzzzzzz.....
The people in this video are not members of the CCP. Members of the CCP are very rich, and they are able to send their children to US, Canada, UK and Australia to study.
What exactly does lift out of poverty mean? Sounds like a new house and more government dependency.
It's all over now they probably dead
Chinese get tons of money yet they dont help their own people
watch liziqi to learn about proactivity and self sufficiency.
This place is not easy to grow any agriculture, water resources is rare,
@@makiyoheihei5445 look at the river.
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They wear Nike shoes and down coats, have running water and electricity with smartphones ...okay they are really poor ! ...LoL
You do realize a lot of western countries sell unwanted clothes to impoverished nations/areas to then resell them at a cheaper price?? 🙄🙄 also, they could be fake.
@@etow8034 you said they were poor sarcastically. I said they are
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这绝对不是最穷的，去大凉山看看
比较谁最穷没意义,重要的是帮助他们脱贫.中央的政策是很好,但是钱和政策一级一级下来的时候,情况就不一样了,更不用说一些基层腐败的全部私吞.
There's Soo many ghost city in China what about occupying some condominium
So much for there government helping them!😑
This is because of one child policy ,
This is the real china, not what CGTN shows you. Bless these poor hardworking people. Shame on the ccp.
@@ouyang871223 No..you were'nt lifted from poverty by the ccp. That's a complete fairytale.
You chinese are conditioned to believe every little thing your darling party tells you, - they have taken away your ability to think both critically or independently. The party gives itself far too much credit for what it has done in China - without being critical of what it hasn't achieved..problem is fools like you are more than ready to un-critically believe their nonsense because you have been conditioned by them to respond like sheep - everyone..just follows the next one from one big lie to the next.
Outside of china..this looks really hopeless and pathetic. You just rollover and allow your un-elected government to abuse you and do to you whatever they want - and all the time..they are turning you in to brute beasts, and you are oblivious to it all.
You brought yourself out of poverty by your own hard work, not the party..do you really think they 'care' about you..???
You missed your chance in 1989..your Fathers had much more courage and guts than this generation of chinese...pfftt
Do they eat fetus too?
This video is not meant to make you feel lucky.
Right
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.
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+?*
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
Rural india is far more worse...this village people are well dressed
Search about Kowloon...there that too goes away...China is India...
thanks for bringing this up, I trust the media attention will push the government to get it fixed
Young people left the village. Only elderly and young remains in village.
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.
This village looks droughts and scarcity of water...
I can't even image earning $347 a week let alone a year. Poor dudes
Cost of living different there.
Same
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.
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
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.
Thank you for reminding me on how lucky I am when compared to this poor but proud villagers.