{"id":9180,"date":"2011-06-02T05:06:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-06-02T05:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T05:06:30","slug":"Southern-China-s-Unwanted-Masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9180","title":{"rendered":"Southern China\u2019s Unwanted Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong are learning that hiding a problem isn\u2019t the same as fixing it. As readers may recall, the Guangdong city of Shenzhen in April evicted 80,000 people it considered \u201chigh risk\u201d ahead of an upcoming international sporting event. Now residents in nearby Dongguan are irked that many of those thrown out of Shenzhen \u2013 including former inmates, vagrants and the mentally ill \u2013 appear to be resettling in their town.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police in Dongguan, a sprawling manufacturing center located roughly 60 kilometers northwest of Shenzhen, are under fire from residents who claim the city has seen an uptick in robberies and violent crimes recently. The wave of complaints reached such a crescendo that city police this week held a web chat to discuss the problem with concerned netizens. Dongguan authorities haven\u2019t outwardly criticized Shenzhen\u2019s program (open feuding between local governments is rare in China). But during the online chat, police officials did make a reference to the neighboring boomtown\u2019s human clean-up effort ahead of the upcoming Summer Universiade: \u201cThe Shenzhen authorities are running a thorough check on those who violate the law and all types of criminals. That will indeed push some of the highly dangerous social groups to Dongguan,\u201d local media quoted the Dongguan police as saying. <\/p>\n

Experts on China\u2019s public security apparatus, which is in the midst of its harshest crackdown on political dissent in more than a decade, are starting to question Shenzhen\u2019s moves as well. \u201cSome of those evicted have no criminal records. Their dignity and rights were compromised for the sake of the Universiade,\u201d said Wang Dawei, a professor at the Chinese People\u2019s Public Security University, according to a report Thursday in the Communist Party-backed Global Times. \u201cForcing them out without proper settlement might have caused more social problems than it solved.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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