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Don't know where these figures of 300m and 700m come from, but people below poverty line reduced significantly. No tax is asked from farmers and kids of farmers

Don't know where these figures of 300m and 700m come from, but people below poverty line reduced significantly. No tax is asked from farmers and kids of farmers are free to get higher pay either by either working as migrants in city or become new middle class through education. Overall wellbeing uplift is no doubt but discrepancy in the society increases much more, which is a big problem. Back to HK problem, info access control is a real threat to the freedom of ordinary people, which will ruin the foundation of HK’s prosperity.

lettergram 7y ago
> No tax is asked from farmers and kids of farmers are free to get higher pay either by either working as migrants in city or become new middle class through education Largely because they can't afford education[1], children become migrants. That's largely the group I'm talking about. Apparently, the current numbers stand at ~300 million migrant workers[2] in 2015 (stats I quoted was from 2008), BUT that's largely due to reclassification of the workers to "urban" as opposed to "migrant" class. Which means they can stay in their residence without a job. That does not mean they can afford things like education. Implying there's likely still closer to that ~700 million number who can't break out of poverty. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_China [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_in_China