In pictures: China's Wealth Gap (BBC News)

[Filiprish]

China's haves and have-nots: what a dichotomy.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/logo04.gif

In pictures: China's Wealth Gap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/asia_pac_china0s_wealth_gap/img/1.jpg (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/asia_pac_china0s_wealth_gap/html/1.stm)

[Emperor_Mike]

Most unfortunate. :frown:

[truMp]

China's rural provinces are so backwards; it's really sad.

[applehead]

not so backwards!
that lady on page 7 looks like she
got permanent make up tattooed on her
eyebrows.

[John0101]

they need better pictures.

[Filiprish]

they need better pictures.
You're right.

Try and find some better ones to share. I'll do the same.

not so backwards!
that lady on page 7 looks like she
got permanent make up tattooed on her
eyebrows.
Yeah, but compare her lifestyle to an average person in Japan or US.

[thaite]

Not sure what the point was. It's not like China is the only place to have such economic disparity.

[Filiprish]

Not sure what the point was. It's not like China is the only place to have such economic disparity.
Well, China was the only country that BBC did a bit on. :wink:

[SunWuKong]

Yeah, but compare her lifestyle to an average person in Japan or US.

hell, compare her lifestyle to the average person in China's cities. that was the point of the pictorial after all.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

Interestingly enough: China's Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality) is 0.36, US is a bit higher, I think 0.38, Mexico is 0.5, and HK is 0.56.

BTW, Guizhou has really beautiful waterfalls

In general, China's economic policy puts burden on the countryside in order to subsidize development of urban areas. This is almost the complete reverse of every other Asian country (notably Japan and Korea), which protect farmers at all costs and subsidize rural areas heavily with infrastructure projects. This might be a result of China's weird "cities rule counties" governance structure, which is the reverse of just about everywhere else in the world.

[Napoleon Chynamite]

Yeah those pics didn't really reveal how poor they were besides showing how disheveled and/or dirty they were. I was expecting some side by side comparison among the so-called 'rich' Chinese people and the poor.

[SunWuKong]

Interestingly enough: China's Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality) is 0.36, US is a bit higher, I think 0.38, Mexico is 0.5, and HK is 0.56.

BTW, Guizhou has really beautiful waterfalls

In general, China's economic policy puts burden on the countryside in order to subsidize development of urban areas. This is almost the complete reverse of every other Asian country (notably Japan and Korea), which protect farmers at all costs and subsidize rural areas heavily with infrastructure projects. This might be a result of China's weird "cities rule counties" governance structure, which is the reverse of just about everywhere else in the world.


right. the attention is placed on the income gap in China because 1) the population gap is huge between the rural population and the urban population, and so the Chinese economy in reality is held up by the rural people - something that many economists predict is unsustainable and 2) some of the poor in China might still be living in third world conditions, whereas the poor in, for example, the US, have social safety nets like welfare to fall back on, and they still have many comforts that the poor in China do not have.

[robotic]

http://beifan.com/000china/albumpeople/ch/longzhoustreetkids.jpg

my most favourite picture.
*hugs all of the children*

when we were younger, we were never as cute ;_; (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Anuma/kd.jpg)

[Filiprish]

http://www.unchina.org/about_china/mdgmaps/humandevelopment.jpg

Rural:

http://www.albertson.edu/politics/Dayley/SEAsia02/pics.h44.jpg
http://www.ifad.org/photo/images/10148_F29s.jpg
http://www.albertson.edu/politics/Dayley/SEAsia02/pics.h43.jpg
http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/geophotos/collection8/images/lao_poverty_pigsty.JPG



Urban:

http://www.jacekphoto.com/china/shanghai_night10.jpg
http://www.jacekphoto.com/china/shanghai_night01a.jpg
http://www.shsu.edu/~gel_geo/geography/pics/shanghai.jpg

[truMp]

http://www.unchina.org/about_china/mdgmaps/humandevelopment.jpg

Rural:

http://www.albertson.edu/politics/Dayley/SEAsia02/pics.h44.jpg
http://www.ifad.org/photo/images/10148_F29s.jpg
http://www.albertson.edu/politics/Dayley/SEAsia02/pics.h43.jpg
http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/sections/geophotos/collection8/images/lao_poverty_pigsty.JPG



Urban:

http://www.jacekphoto.com/china/shanghai_night10.jpg
http://www.jacekphoto.com/china/shanghai_night01a.jpg
http://www.shsu.edu/~gel_geo/geography/pics/shanghai.jpg

The architecture is so modern and unique in the skyline, what city is that?

haha, they have so many pepsi advertisements on that street, the company must be making mucho bucks over there.

[Filiprish]

The architecture is so modern and unique in the skyline, what city is that?
Shanghai.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

What city is the one with all the pepsi ads anyway?

[SunWuKong]

What city is the one with all the pepsi ads anyway?

i guess it's Shanghai.

am i just not reading correctly, or why are they using traditional characters?

[Filiprish]

What city is the one with all the pepsi ads anyway?
I said Shanghai in the post above you. :wink:

You can tell it's Shanghai by the Pearl TV tower (the tall space age-looking structure) in the background.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

I said Shanghai in the post above you. :wink:

You can tell it's Shanghai by the Pearl TV tower (the tall space age-looking structure) in the background.
Didn't know if they were all the same city.

[Filiprish]

China's capitalist capital (BBC News) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3944723.stm)

More pics of wealth gap:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40463000/jpg/_40463967_zhengzhihua66.jpg

Rags and riches
Tales of everyday life from China's capitalist capital (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/asia_pac_china0s_capitalist_capital/html/1.stm)

[AliBabaIncorporated]

China's capitalist capital being Wenzhou. They sent ~150,000 workers to France during WWI, and most of them came back afterwards, which probably had a big influence on the region (both in terms of injection of capital back in the day, and of culture).