this is not an African kids need help at campaign this is a rural School in China the truth is China's poorest are still left to rot these are scenes from a documentary in 2012 called three sisters which documented the lives of some of the poorest areas in China China calls itself the second largest economy and claims to have eradicated extreme poverty while this documentary was filmed about 10 12 years ago the exact details are still very relevant today because the truth is although the CCP by definition have eradicated poverty the reality is that Chinese people are still living in poverty for most of them some people always claim that look David China has improved their quality of life quality of living um how can you still claim that China has poverty issues imagine yourself if you're a communist dictator what would you do option one is you claim that we'll let half of the country get rich first and we're going to shift the definition and because while the other half did get rich we can almost forget about these half that remained poor because we elevated half of the country we're a first world country now am I right d shiao ping or option two you brainwash people so hard to think that peasantry and being poor is the mainstream style of Life on my right mous don't or option three you were given two decades of economic growth and you claimed to have alleviated poverty from existence yet after you issued a lockdown in 2020 all of these issues that seemingly have gone away came back I wonder why am I right cheating pain what I'm trying to illustrate here is that through each iteration of leadership in China they've never solved the problem they simply using their own ways try to disguise the problem as something else look this video is not trying to paint this China has poor people as you know somehow their second class citizens in fact that's far from it I'm trying to be realistic about this issue so the hidden reality is this question actually are Chinese people less than trees [Music] apparently yes on December 8th in the province of Hunan they started to put sweaters on trees and yet this video started to circulate on Chinese social media this man is too poor to afford winter clothes so instead he has to use layers of plastic bag to try to survive the incoming winter in China internet users really put it the best a man's life is not as good as trees in China when trees get sweaters and people get ignored that seems to be a very problematic Society doesn't it what kind of a system lets that happen what role does the government play when that happens and that's not the only example this photo recently what Chinese internet users are calling the pullit or winning photo from China is a cart from China welfare Lottery which by definition their point of this Lottery is that it's supposed to contribute back to helping the homeless the less fortunate people in China yet you see the employees in the cart on their phone and this homeless person this beggar in front of the car lays right there so there's some level of irony right uh the fact that they claim to have eradicated poverty yet in this photo it clearly shows the extreme wealth Gap now I understand wealth Gap and poverty are two different things and that's a whole other topic because there's also problems why the wealth Gap widened because if the China welfare Lottery claims to have a mission of helping the poor um where does this take us well the simple answer is they're clearly not doing their job if you can't even help the one in front of you how are you expected to be trusted to help the others and the interesting thing is we recently have a scholar that said 900 million people in China still live as low income okay so this data is not new last year exactly a year ago another professor so this is more than two people now actually there's more people but two professors have now talked about that 900 million people in China live in essentially lwi income level rather than being middle inome so that's about 65% if we consider 1.4 billion people although China's real population after covid deaths and birth rate decline is probably around like 1 billion people so we're thinking 60 to 70% of that population even higher um is not able to live in a middle middle inome society and remember in 2020 former Premier Lea Chang says that 600 million people still lived on less than th000 Yen a month which is barely $150 so if you go scour the Deep database of do in and you honestly I've tried this all night uh you won't find anything that will tell you how bad the the poverty level is in China because it comes from the government they do not want people to think that China is still having this extreme level of poverty it sounds quite unbelievable even bizarre that 900 million people in China when the fact is you can go to large cities like Shanghai or Beijing and you can probably see wow these people are just like us you know they have Apartments they have cars they live a pretty luxurious lifestyle but the truth is most of China is not like that [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this video is a family doing dumpster diving the father is collecting cardboard and Bottles while the mom and the kids are are watching closely and this family looks quite young this is not some 70 80 year olds and these videos here you see the parent has has to carry the kid on their back while they do these dangerous production line work [Music] [Music] or at the construction site and this old woman in this video here wonders between the food cards asking them about their cheapest item eventually she settled to buy a baked uh bread and the person that filmed this eventually bought her breakfast and this is a kid who was seen dumpster diving uh obviously he was hungry so the man who filmed got him some food and also a new pair of shoes later he had to delete this video because he got pressure from the local mayor uh obviously they didn't want to be embarrassed about the situation so they forced him to delete the video all he wanted to do was just help a kid out and spread awareness and this video which I did a short uh video on before for and this another man here also U the person filming could not bear to go up to the to the man across the street directly so instead he got somebody else to give him a a bag of takeout food so that he can eat instead of the scrap melon peel that he was eating so the idea of China eradicating poverty at least the propaganda makes it sound like that there's no poverty in China anymore uh they also claim that you know there's still poverty but it's not what you think right people get food to eat people are living pretty well and eventually you know Farmers have their own land all of this is built on the idea that they stay exactly where they are because here is the caveat I'll admit that the 900 million people not everybody lives like the people in these videos in fact even the researchers themselves say that it's a huge range right between people who are making money who has jobs that almost are in that middle income category but they still fall short to those extreme poverty that we're seeing in some of the videos while most of them are almost making it they end up falling into What's called the middle inome trap which I'll talk in more details but before that here show you this video so this is a little collection of people who are doing challenges of after they're laid off from work or they have they have no jobs of spending the least amount of money to get by each day um so this person person in one day spent about 10 Yen which is about a dollar or $1 38140 uh US dollars that is and so when people almost get into that middle- income category they fall into the middle- income trap now with the middle income trap you're thinking of people who used up their entire life savings to buy a house and when that crash they've been left with an unfinished home they got nothing uh no savings or anything like that and then you also have people who can't really afford medical expenses because despite being a socialist economy they don't have a Universal Health Care system or Universal Health Coverage uh so people pay out of pocket way more than other countries but the CCP doesn't care about any of that all they care is this little word play called definitions defining poverty and sure 900 million people not everybody is so poor to the point where they can't afford to eat but think about what the CCB tried to achieve all they're trying to say is that as long as we pretend these people aren't as in trouble as they are then we should be fine to call ourselves successful in fighting poverty so what should people do instead well many videos that we can find online show that there's been more and more protest uh especially because people aren't getting paid at their jobs for months on end some of them take up arms some of them do silent protest in front of the government building no matter what people at the bottom eventually will one day be fed up and rise up again now eventually you know let's not be too dreamlike in terms of what people can endure because unfortunately a lot of them has been brainwashed or scared to rise up but there will be a point in the future where people will break and eventually when that comes I think that's when all hell breaks loose and uh that will be a whole other story to tell so um yeah but that's it today for the episode on China's poverty issue and essentially what's not being told to the public if you enjoy the content leave a like comment below your thoughts and subscribe to our Channel until next time bye-bye