As Beijing authorities have begun evicting laborers, migrant workers, and other low-income residents out of the city’s suburbs in the past few weeks, the trend of clearing out what the Chinese regime calls the “low-class population” has spread to other cities. One expert believes the regime fears this population could be a threat to authorities during hard economic times.
Following a deadly fire that broke out in Daxing District, an area in Beijing where many factory workers live in low-rent apartments, the local authorities took advantage of the disaster—which happened in a building without proper fire safety measures—as an excuse to kick out residents.
