Welcome to Beijing: where helping the homeless can get you evicted

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from what I have experienced the Chinese have a totally different concept of humanitarian values and standards. I am not sure if this is related to living in high population areas or if it's a philosophical difference.

I think in this case it's mostly because of groupthink and respect for authority. Many Chinese probably think "This doesn't seem right, but I don't understand politics and the people in charge have decades of experience, so I'm sure they do the right thing". And because of the seniority system the people in charge are often very old and have formed their value system during the tumultuous and poor Mao Zedong era.

It's the local government's policy to kick out as many working class people as they can to ensure political security.

Alternate article: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/12/02/authorities-evict-beij...

Most Chinese metropolises don't make it "welcome" to migrants from outside administrative region in the fist place.

That said, it's a hard problem to tackle. You can't have 25 million people swarm your city and be able to manage things properly to ensure safety and proper services, but additionally, it's hard to economically engineer even economic development --which is the root cause of the issue. Migrants come because their prospects in the big megalopolises are better even while it being entailing administrative disadvantages.

When I visited Beijing, I noticed the nicest and most secure places were always the bank and government buildings.

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