Word: gansu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make matters worse, inflation is galloping along at 20% or more annually, eating away at every worker's livelihood. Says an official in Gansu, a northwest province: "Even cadres like me are beginning to feel the pain, and I earn at least three times as much as an ordinary worker...
...northeast, home to many of China's crumbling state-owned industries. According to the China Labor Bulletin, a publication printed in Hong Kong and smuggled to mainland labor dissidents, more than 300 strikes and protests broke out in March and April in the northeast provinces of Anhui, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Liaoning, Shaanxi and Sichuan, some lasting more than 40 days and involving more than 200,000 people. Tens of thousands of unemployed and underemployed workers marched through Heilongjiang province's two largest industrial towns, Harbin and Qiqiha'er, the Bulletin reported. Some demonstrators reportedly committed suicide in front of officials, while...
...stuck in subsistence farming and near feudal conditions. "Beijing has no extra money to spend on us," says an official in northern Shanxi province. "We were told we would be helped after the reforms took off in the south." Much of the north is still waiting. A businessman from Gansu province, where a quarter of the population is illiterate, complains, "We will always be 10 years behind Shenzhen." At least 100 million peasants have left the land to search for quick riches and are floating rootlessly from job to job in the cities, increasing the crime rate and the profits...