impact of social issue in china (housing)

Question 1

overcrowding

Answer 1

• 1980, 20% of Chinese people lived in cities, in 2017, 56% did
• shows huge chance in 30 years due to better access to jobs, education and healthcare but also mass overcrowding in cities that can’t cater for this number
• World Bank estimates one billion people – 70% of the population – will be living in cities by 2030
• shows overcrowding only set to get worse as our increasing population grasps at job opportunity

Question 2

cost and supply of housing

Answer 2

• serious shortage of low-cost housing in Beijing and Shanghai
• shows two most populated cities in Shanghai are the two with the most limited housing opportunities for the working class
• house prices in China increased 250% from 2000 to 2010
• in Shanghai, prices increased 20% between 2015 and 2016
• shows places that are needing most affordable housing are the places making themselves most exclusive

Question 3

government initiatives to improve housing

Answer 3

• five Year Plan (2011-2015) the Government built 36 million affordable homes in urban areas
• shows government attempting to make improvements but 36 million isn’t helping the increasing struggles placed on urban workers by the hukuo system
• gov made cheaper rents and a relaxation of the Hukou system, making access to housing easier for migrant workers
• shows those 277million migrant workers are being recognised and over time may have easier access to the benefits of living in city life

-however all land in China under state control, officials used violence and cutting off water / power supplies to force people out