Migrant Workers in Shanghai
As China’s economy turns to globalisation, at home the issue of a floating workforce is becoming more intense and complex. In Shanghai, low-skilled migrants are subject to economic and social segregation. This comes with a social stigma and restricts the migrants to particular economic sectors within a fragmented labour market. Nonetheless, the itineraries the migrants follow allow them to acquire certain skills and resources. Their survival strategies produce what have been called “situations of affiliation and disaffiliation” within an overall situation of general insecurity.
The “move away” policy or how to battling pollution in china
Big cities face heavy environmental protection pressure. For instance, Beijing has a daily environmental index and the government also implements an annual “blue sky” plan. And environmental protection departments are especially under heavy pressure to fulfill their quota of emission cuts every year.
From this we can see that the government is very strict about emission reduction.
But how are we solving our environmental problems in large and medium-sized cities? The common practice is to move polluting enterprises such as coal-fired power and steel plants away from the cities to the remote areas.
