Chapter 3

Property transfer in China is very complicated at this time according to Bill Dodson. Basically the people who build and construct these multi-million dollar neighborhoods are not living there. They are pushed to the outskirts, into the countryside. They are only good for their manual labor like when “America needed immigrants from Europe to build its cities and workers from China to construct its railroads.” (Dodson 48) Workers cannot stay in cities without special temporary permits, without these permits they can be kicked out at anytime by officials. Security will keep people, peasants, from entering and looking into these magnificent cities that they helped construct. However, by 2030 China hopes to move all its citizens into cities -- that’s nearly 400 million additional people being placed into already populated cities. The majority of commoners believe that things were better twenty years ago when everyone was the same. Now, there is a great barrier between peasants and the rich. I think that this is very unfair to their people. I think that the solution is just to make sure that everyone has a fair shot and there is no reason whatsoever for someone to be banned from an area because of their class. I try to compare China to America and I don’t think we are much better. We have a great gap between our rich and poor. We ask them to leave public areas sometimes as well, even though they could be someone who helped make our cities.