China Change, November 29, 2017 On November 18, 2017, a huge fire broke out in Xinjian Village, Daxing County, in the Beijing suburbs, killing 19 people. Subsequently the Beijing municipal government launched a large-scale campaign known as “big investigation, big clean-up, and big rectification of hidden safety trouble,” issuing eviction orders that forced thousands of migrant workers to leave their residences in the freezing night. In official documents, they are referred to as the “low-end population.” While the exact number is hard to estimate at this point, the eviction map suggests that the number is likely to be in tens of thousands. Men, women, old and young migrant workers left Beijing in haste, dragging as many of their belongings as they could out […]
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