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🚨 This is the "30 years ahead of the world" China they keep talking about? 🇨🇳
Behind the flashy propaganda and grand claims, reality often exposes poor quality, weak standards, and hollow promises.
The hype is huge. The results? Not so much.
#RealFaceOfChina #China #Viral #BreakingNews
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Recently, some Indian social media users claimed that they had made a "discovery" that China, like India, supposedly has "a caste system." They shared memes about ancient China's "four occupations" (Shi-Nong-Gong-Shang: scholars, farmers, artisans, merchants) by framing them as equivalent to India's hereditary jati system. Chinese commentators believe the claim reflects the ignorance of some Indian netizens about Chinese historical culture. globaltimes.cn/page/202606/13…

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This is how 90% of Ch!na actually looks like. Shanghai. Beijing. Shenzhen. The shining skylines that they show in every documentary, every news segment, every "Ch!na is winning" argument on the internet. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗖𝗵!𝗻𝗮.
That is the version of Ch!na that is meant to be seen.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵!𝗻𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹.
Underdeveloped.
Deliberately kept out of frame.
Hundreds of millions of people living in conditions that would shock the same people who point to Shanghai as proof of Ch!nese superiority.
There is even a name for it in Ch!nese policy. 𝗛𝘂𝗸𝗼𝘂.
Hukou is Ch!na's household registration system. Think of it as a document that ties every Ch!nese citizen to their place of birth... either urban or rural.
Here is how it works in simple terms.
You are born in a village in rural Sichuan. Your Hukou says rural Sichuan. You grow up, move to Shanghai for work, and spend 20 years there.
You are still legally a rural Sichuan resident.
Which means...
Your children cannot attend Shanghai public schools for free. You cannot access Shanghai's public healthcare at the same rate as urban residents. You cannot qualify for the same social security benefits as someone born in Shanghai. You are physically in the city but legally you do not belong to it.
This creates two classes of people inside the same city.
Urban Hukou holders... full access to education, healthcare, housing subsidies, and social services.
Rural Hukou holders living in cities... second class access to everything. Or none at all.
There are an estimated 300 million people in Ch!na living in cities with rural Hukou status. They built the skylines. They work the factories. They keep the cities running.
They just cannot fully live in them.
In India, a guy from village can move to a city and he and his family will get all the benefit of that city ... not in Ch!na though.
That is the real divide in Ch!na that the Shanghai and Beijing ads never show you.
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Cracked dorms for locals (Lower caste), brand-new housing for international students at a university in #China
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This is the condition of 🇨🇳 China's High tech Bus, when it rains, despite Chinese claiming that China is 30 years ahead of the world in technology.
Sharroh@Sharroh45
This is the condition of 🇨🇳 China's metro system when it rains, despite Chinese claiming that China is 30 years ahead of the world in technology.
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