Xinhua, the official media of the Communist Party of China (CPC), released the word of the year for 2020, and “people” and “fight poverty” were elected as the domestic words and phrases of the year 2020. Radio Free Asia interviewed several ordinary people who were skeptical and cried out bitterly about poverty.
Xinhua, the official media of the Communist Party of China, released the word of the year 2020 on Monday, and “people” and “fight poverty” were on the list respectively. However, many Chinese people we interviewed said that not only did they not “break away from poverty”, but their living conditions were even worse than last year, including rising prices, low wages, and lack of coal and electricity.
The official Chinese Communist Party media Xinhua News Agency’s “Xinhua Viewpoint” microblogging service released a news release on the 21st, in which the National Center for Language Resources Monitoring and Research and the Commercial Press released the “Chinese Word of the Year 2020”, with “min” being elected as the “domestic word” of the year 2020, and “脱贫攻坚” as the “domestic word” of the year 2020.
The Xinhua News Agency further explained: “This year, from the anti-epidemic and anti-flood to the birth of the Civil Code, planning to open the ’14th Five-Year’ new journey, everywhere shining ‘people first’ concept; this year, as scheduled to complete the target task of poverty eradication This year, the long-cherished dream of a thousand years has been fulfilled now!”
Xinhua, the official media of the Communist Party of China (CPC), released the word of the year for 2020, and “people” and “fight poverty” were selected as the domestic words and phrases of the year 2020. Radio Free Asia interviewed several ordinary people who felt skeptical and cried out bitterly that they were too poor.
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Radio Free Asia interviewed several mainland people, whether the report said “as scheduled to complete the task of poverty alleviation goals”? A woman in Beijing raised her voice to sound skeptical: “Poverty eradication? I don’t think so! I still seem to be earning so much money, but I am much lower than their wages! I also have enough trouble, because my house was forced to demolish eight years, these eight years I rented a house costs, every month must be in more than four thousand dollars, and then add some expenses, I have been almost to extreme poverty!”
Ms. Chen said she is a social security retiree, eight years ago the monthly pension of more than 1,900 yuan, eight years up to now more than three thousand a little. There are many social security pensioners like her in Beijing, so how can they get out of poverty? Those who are retired from private enterprises can receive a monthly pension of about 5,000, and those who are retired from civil service have more than 10,000.
Ms. Chen said she took her mother and father with her, and the three of them had a combined pension of about 9,000 eight years ago, and life became even more difficult after her father’s death.
How to live frugally? Ms. Chen said, “can buy online, the entity store to buy special, only so, can not buy organic, organic more expensive.” Her wish for 2020 is to pay back the house she demolished.
Radio Free Asia also interviewed Beijing’s Mr. Zhang, who simply said, “The salary is just like that, nothing has changed,” and otherwise expressed no concern. Beijing citizen Mr. Zhao also seemed lukewarm about the release of the word of the year saying, “I don’t know, I didn’t even know it was there, I never cared about them!”
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Ms. Lv said, as for the Xinhua News Agency interpretation of the “fight against poverty” this “thousand years of long-cherished dream, this year’s dream”, Ms. Lv also expressed disagreement: “said the people out of poverty? That is unrealistic! Take our consumption level here, prices are particularly high, wages are particularly low, how can we get out of poverty? Like the price of vegetables is twice as high as before, the pension rose by a hundred dollars a year, how can you say out of poverty?”
Ms. Lv said, she just retired to receive more than two thousand, retired two years now receive more than three thousand, not enough to live, usually in the service industry to sell goods, in the local eight hours a day to work on average monthly wages of about two thousand one, two thousand two. It is impossible for the working people to get out of poverty and become rich, she lamented, and officials react to things they do not care.
Ms. Lv: “In the past, when I spoke to officials, they did not take our advice. It is not for the people to set? Who will listen to what the people say? We now the people even to do a matter is quite difficult.”
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Mr. Ma, who lives in Hebei, also replied with a sneer in an interview with Radio Free Asia: “To reach what (out of poverty)? Everyone is dying of cold, and there is no electricity and no coal. God, the poverty is dying, and business is not good.”
Mr. Ma mentioned that the villagers who usually go to work outside the country to go home for the New Year, but this year are early back to the countryside, there is no work, there is no work to do, than every year to come back early.
Mr. Ma: “Young people go out to work every year to earn a lot of money.”
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How can we live without work? Mr. Ma said, “The family has a little savings to spend, spend it, I do not know.”
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Mr. Ma was originally a farmer, he said there are seven or eight years not planted, to sell some small vegetables. Many local farmers with fields are not farming, now more than part-time jobs, earning fields do not earn money: “an acre of land a year to earn less than a few hundred, a thousand dollars, fertilizer, fertilizer, seeds are expensive, more expensive labor.”
But Mr. Ma lamented that the vegetables are not good to sell, not only the price of vegetables, the people do not eat as much food as before, eat not so fine.
Mr. Ma mentioned that it’s been about 10 degrees below zero at night for a while, “The government says it’s going to shut down electricity and not allow burning coal or firewood for three or four years, the reason says it’s to prevent pollution.”
For the Xinhua News Agency explained that this year’s election is the people first “people”, Mr. Ma said, “they choose their own play, we have nothing to do.”
Asked about his wish for next year? Mr. Ma only said, “No! Just stay alive!”
In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Hunan dissident Gong and Jian, who live in exile in Taiwan, said that the Xinhua News Agency is the official interpretation of the word “people” in the so-called “people first”, but everyone has different views.
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Gong and Jian said: “I saw the word ‘people’ at that time, I first thought of the freedom and democracy of the ‘people’, the citizen movement ‘people’, and even But if I were in China, when I saw the word ‘people’, I would think of the ‘people’ of the people’s unhappiness, the ‘people’ of the country’s advancement and retreat. The ‘people’, the so-called untouchable ‘people’ of the low-end population in the mouth of the Chinese Communist government.”
As for the “fight against poverty,” Gong and Jian interpreted that everything is the party’s word anyway: “Xi Jinping said that the people of China are out of poverty, that the people of the country are out of poverty, like Li Keqiang said, China’s 600 million people actually have a monthly income of 1,000 yuan, this voice even if the Premier said something, soon in China This voice, even if the Premier says something, will soon be blocked in China. That’s why: everything is Xi Jinping’s call! Even if he says that China will enter a communist society tomorrow, we will not doubt it!”
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