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Hundreds of thousands of citizens who come to Beijing in looking for work, can not afford another apartment, except A tiny room in the basement, without heating and ventilation.
Wang Zhang was lucky: he came from the village to the capital of China and right there found a job as a realtor. Every day from morning to late evening he shows respectable clients spacious apartments in new homes. It seems that large windows and the arrangement of rooms can talk infinitely. And after work, realtor Wang Zhang returns home, to dungeon. On the minus the second floor in the basement, he rents a room. Inside there is only a bed, a table and a TV. It doesn’t even fit here cupboard. Instead, a wire for clothes was stretched under the ceiling. IN a room of 6 square meters Wang Zhang lives already more of the year. Almost all of his salary is 6 thousand yuan, about 30 thousand rubles, he sends the family to the village. Room rental per month to him costs 500 yuan, a little less than 3 thousand rubles. “In my house wife with a small son and elderly parents. No one can work, and yes no work in the village! Everybody lives on my salary therefore, I try not to spend money on myself. And people like me here a lot, “says Wang Zhang. There are about 50 small people on the floor rooms. Like in a large communal apartment there’s one toilet and shower, but there is no kitchen at all. But the biggest problem is dampness and cold. Inside, plus 15, about the same on the street. “In winter we were freezing here, and now spring has become warmer. But I’m already used to it well to dress, “says Wang Zhang. In the Gong family’s room, conditions are better – their house was recently renovated: the walls were insulated. Now it’s not cold, but stuffy: ventilation was not conducted into the basement. “We have room 10 for three meters, the air stagnates, often in the evenings a headache from this, “says lifter Gong Zhuo. Gong Mei works a cleaning lady, her husband a lifter. 4 years ago from a neighboring province they moved to Beijing. Like everyone else, we went for the dream – to save money and build your house. Now their savings will go to pay studying daughter. “We hope that our daughter will be able to find in the future good work and get out of here forever from the dungeon, “- Gong Mei says. Visitors often agree to any, even the most low salary. They do not receive benefits, insurance or benefits. And if Pekingians from overcrowded houses can claim new apartments, then migrants, people without a residence permit, on such a social support is not necessary. Skyscrapers in Beijing are under construction very fast. Housing prices are also rising rapidly. Every year here according to official statistics, 600 comes from all over the country thousands of migrants and normal apartments they simply can not afford. “Not counting the new arrivals, they constantly live in the city for about 5 million migrants. Most of them rent rooms under ground. But how much is unknown, “- said the professor sociology Li Shi. Houses with residential basements seemingly nothing different from ordinary. Owners prefer to hide what they rent such housing. But there are many similar offers on the Internet. In Pekin there are whole areas with underground inhabitants. “By law, for everyone person must have at least 9 square meters of housing. But if you ban these apartments, you need to create another affordable housing, right? How to solve this problem is unclear, “- says architect Zhang Guang. The authorities, in turn, turn a blind eye to this a problem. On the one hand, China is trying to deal with the rapid urbanization. And on the other, imagine the life of a huge metropolis without people who agree to any job, it is simply impossible. Marina Chaika
Money china
