By the way: migrant workers are flooding China

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The Chinese authorities are building walls with barbed wire on the borders, arranging “100 days of dispersal”, tightening the visa regime, imprisoning and fining those who rent apartments to “outsiders”. Isn't it time for Russia to adopt the experience of its neighbors?

520 rubles per head of an illegal. How China fights uninvited guests

The Chinese authorities are building walls with barbed wire on the borders, arranging “100 days of dispersal”, tightening the visa regime, imprisoning and fining those who rent apartments to “outsiders”. Isn't it time for Russia to adopt the experience of its neighbors?

- These foreigners have already hesitated. You walk down the street in the evening - they speak Arabic on the left, Hindi on the right. North Koreans have come in large numbers, open brothels at every step under the guise of eateries.

There are so many Africans in Guangzhou - they sleep under bridges in cardboard boxes and heaps of rubbish. In the city center, Chinese prostitutes fight daily with their rivals from Thailand, Congo and Ukraine. Now it is easier for a businessman to hire illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, Indonesia or Africa for construction: they are ready to work hard for a cup of rice a day. Soon, China will be like yours in Biryulyov: we will go out into the street to smash hostels.

The unemployed are not given a visa

22-year-old Guangzhou resident Liang Mynis simply seething with anger towards immigrants. But not so long ago, the Chinese perceived foreigners with a mixture of curiosity and complacency. In recent years, migrant workers have managed to change China not for the better - in large cities, Indians offer cocaine and hashish on the street, Arab pimps impose girls from Eastern Europe, and blacks sell stolen electronics. In Guangzhou alone, according to police estimates, there are 100,000 African immigrants. As a rule, black illegal immigrants travel in fragile boats from neighboring countries and, once in China, immediately destroy their documents. It is impossible to send them back: after all, it is not known which country to send them to. About 50 (!) Million guest workers, including 300 thousand Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians, are already on "bird rights" in the Celestial Empire. To be honest, it's a real paradox - after all, over the past 20 years, it was Chinese immigrants who entered Europe, the United States and Russia on double-bottomed ships and in refrigerated trucks with vegetables. However, other times have come.

China has become rich, its economy attracts citizens of impoverished countries. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, refugees from Syria, Iraq and Egypt have also been sailing to the Celestial Empire. In Shanghai and Guangzhou, neighborhoods have grown by leaps and bounds where women offer prayers from minarets and walk with their faces covered.

- At first, the Chinese government did not attach any importance to this, - says a journalist from Shanghai Zi Kaifeng … “It was very easy to get a visa, documents were hardly checked at the border. However, when the indigenous population began to lose their jobs, attitudes towards immigrants changed dramatically. Now the PRC visa is comparable in complexity to the Schengen visa: you need to provide papers from work, a bank statement, a salary certificate and a hotel reservation - before, a photo and a short questionnaire were enough. Unemployed tourists may be denied entry to China altogether. Authorities are erecting a wall with barbed wire and electronic sensors on the border with North Korea and plans to build a similar wall near Vietnam. The telephone line "Bounty Hunting" was opened: a Chinese man who will help in catching an illegal will receive 100 yuan (520 rubles - Auth.) - and the phones are bursting with calls.

Previously, the police in China almost did not check the passports of foreigners, but now this happens more and more often. Recently, a patrolman on the outskirts of Guangzhou demanded my documents, and even called the Public Security Bureau, carefully checking the visa number. Often in the PRC, a campaign of "100 days of dispersal" is carried out: the special services carry out raids and searches in immigrant areas, catching "devils" - this is how migrant workers are called here in jargon. Last year, 200 thousand (!) People were deported from China, including citizens of the prosperous USA and Great Britain. They enter on a tourist visa and remain illegally employed as English language teachers in private schools in the PRC. The salary there is higher than in Europe and America. A year ago, the police arrested a Briton for attempting to rape a 16-year-old Chinese woman. During a search of his apartment, it turned out that … 20 more Englishmen live there illegally! Well, just like in Russia with Uzbek janitors.

It is assumed that from January 1, 2014, the PRC will introduce imprisonment and severe monetary fines for those who illegally rent housing to immigrants. Foreigners wishing to rent an apartment in China will be required to first provide a long-term visa and a decent Chinese bank account.

"We'll just burn their neighborhoods down."

- Personally, I am the most enraged by the Vietnamese, - angry 19-year-old student from Guangzhou Fei Bao … - They fought with China for their independence for a thousand years, and now they climb to us, sew clothes in factories for $ 200 a month. From the visitors from India, there is no breath at all. They take so little for work that even the poor peasants in the provinces have begun hiring Indians to harvest the rice. For illegal immigrants, they dig gigantic underground hostels so that the police do not find them. I'm glad the authorities have begun to take draconian measures, but this should have been done earlier.

… Unlike Russia, migrant workers in China behave quieter than water, lower than grass. They do not rob and do not rob. I asked the Chinese: what would happen if, as in Biryulyov, a newcomer killed a guy who stood up for a girl with a knife? The answer was unequivocal: "We will burn all immigrant neighborhoods: they know and are afraid."

Until recently, anyone could enter China, as well as Russia. Now, realizing the danger, the authorities have remembered: they are introducing fines, building border walls and changing the visa regime. If even in China they have taken their heads, and it is time for us to urgently solve the problem.

PS.

The report, produced by the Partnership for a New American Economy, argues that the United States is beginning to lose out in the fight to attract talent to other countries, in particular China.

By 2018, America will lack about 224,000 qualified mathematicians, science specialists, and technology and engineering companies, the report says. Among the Americans themselves, these specialties are not very popular.