soon be. a much money does a richer get those people and put them think. one german and american the new germans on al-jazeera. the chinese authorities call them the low end population. migrant workers who came to beijing to build clean and feed the capital. but they no longer fit the dazzling image president xi jinping wants for his showpiece capital. so the city is getting rid of its poorest residents. and steve cho on this episode of one of one east we witnessed the massive dictions and demolitions reshaping beijing.

here in the beijing suburb ocean john it's outside the fifty three mud about fifty kilometers from the city center into recently almost one hundred twenty thousand people lived here now they must leave. a major yes and that delay should actually question that leader that has not run up on earth and not just someone they're not going to meet them out of town and i'm sure that you will hear. i found the montana judge shocking images are they here any of another novel. yeah. are you talking about that you know probably not enough trigger a woman on the. this woman lived and where to go with their husbands now the

small shop i rented is nothing but a body stump. and what are the children who were later going to come. down from canada to the arguments here why don't you know that i'm gone and that there are a number of other. means of transportation to be pretty toxic when. they move what i have left a few hundred meters down the body. but it's only temporary this area is going to be torn down.

she recently moved here she had to abandon her groceries business a month ago we'd like to the small shop where you go a little but never want to have your sangamon back she moved to stalky but now has to sell her goods cheaply before she moves again though that and they'll probably have plenty of that bound to let me sleep you know it will come closer of our time out of the bottle bottle tons of the phone. the other team how that she looks all the time how that i have a lot of and how that gets us on the job you know that little cow at another level so that you know that i get something you can't you have begun a bad habit of filing it's your turn a virtual one of the which was so you are trying to get us into have a dimple down pat on the make you want to know. what i mean. it all began on the nineteenth of november two thousand and seventeen nineteen people died in the. caused by a short circuit in

a rundown shop it was the ideal excuse for a far she's to demand several neighborhoods be torn down. and up the right under the bonnet if. the police shut down the shops and chased up the onus. more than two hundred thousand residents were evicted especially here in xing john district. for twenty years it's been home to moderate workers who helped build china's economic miracle but now it's being torn down in the name of safety and hygiene apartments shops and warehouses all must be cleared. by creating these ghost town the municipality can meet the goals of beijing's five year plan to cut the number of residents by fifteen percent by two thousand and twenty. there are also plans to sell off the vacated land at a high price. luxury flats of being planned for the newly rich

the city and builders will become wealthy. she will flourish once the pool a gone. addictions and demolitions of changed the lives of residents here. they accuse the state of cynicism and barbaric methods. the people took to the streets foreign media which kept away but smog binds captured the action. social networks showed images of long lines of displaced people with no way to guard they would soon sense of. why go.

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residents far to hold on. i know you must you're not going to live out what i may have out of the internet. oh isn't this. going on at a spontaneous road block the police lose patience. oh watch out of you. put out of your. would you. then they notice what we've been filming their activities for wakes. you. know yet how does one know what young bailey avoids arrest as a precaution he goes and stays with a friend in tianjin a two hour drive from beijing he cut his hair and shaved off his beard but still

the all pharmacies find him. not guard from. me measure guard. by his home and. he has just enough time to send his daughter a message. for the cheers which will be that him and see that we all. who hear him and to me wallace's. only. say that he won't always shy young thailand that he is not sure. why young was eventually

released on bio he's a whiting trying to disrupt public order. to susie how was a big did in the middle of winter he and his wife now rent a room for two hundred thirty dollars a month much more than they paid before. he came to beijing from the country in the hope of a better lives then things got complicated. are the odds. are that hear him. you know her home. temby are. from the neighborhood and at the mercy of all

far she's suzy how and he's wife decided to send their son back to the countryside . and so on the level. to win the war. or. every morning he drops his wife off at the supermarket where she is a cashier. he's a self employed mechanic. together they earn a decent living on a good month it's a seventeen hundred dollars twice as much as a laboring couple. even though they are registered as internal models from the countryside they have no social insurance no free education for their son. only the city's official residents are entitled to.

the house life is nothing like the chinese dream. by twenty forty nine she wants to make china the world's leading power in its display. makeshift warehouse shabby shops and rundown apartment buildings get in the way. critics say she has no space for poor people from the countryside even if the ones who help make beijing flourish and who continue to take. the official residence don't want to do. suzy huff because they cause his neighborhood was torn down by open office except for one house which miraculously with. his customers it's become a good with france point. five

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