These are measures. What I ‘think’ they are is simply irrelevant.
But I think the linked report has nothing to do with this. It clearly suggests that Chinese workers suffer wage delays, discrimination of minorities, work overly long hours, and things like that. It’s a devastating report on both Chinese working conditions and a U.S. company exploiting the local policy.
Median and average is not the same, the comparison doesn’t make sense as you say yourself.
And it has nothing to do with the linked report. This is not only about pay. It’s is essentially about poor workers’ rights in China.
True, but the problems are grave still. A situation described in the report would be impossible in the EU, let alone for such a long period.
The report is about much more than ‘only’ the pay, but as you mention it: We must distinguish per capita disposable income from GDP per capita. GDP per capita calculates the total value of all goods and services produced in a country divided by the population, which doesn’t reflect the income available to individual citizens and households.
For this reason we must look at the disposable income per capita, which measures the amount of money people can actually use, and we see a completely different picture.
In 2024, China’s national per capita disposable income reached RMB 41,314 (US$5,800 at the current rate), according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics. Income disparities between urban and rural areas remain significant as already mentioned.
If it’s true that you can “rent a 2bd in most cities that aren’t Beijing and Shanghai for 2000RMB/mo”, you’d spend half of your disposable income on the rent (except in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where you spend considerably more).
It is noteworthy that this data comes from official Chinese sources.
But again, the linked report clearly suggests that workers suffer wage delays, discrimination of minorities, are work overly long hours, and things like these. It’s a devastating report on both Chinese working conditions and a U.S. company exploiting the local policy.
No, unfortunately it is from this week. China has sadly done nothing for the workers since.
Thank you for your comment.
This is a major reason why the company produces in China. There are practically no workers’ rights.
Read my other comment in this thread.
The BCC decided to make the downside the headline. Which means they agree with Trump who scared off foreign talent.
No. The BBC decided to report that Chinese people are unsatisfied with their government’s decision and the government doesn’t care. Vews contrary to The Party are being censored as usual.
The biggest misconception about china is they have no human right protection, which is half true because they always treat outsider with respect but their citizen shitty.
You have never been in China except maybe as a tourist. Even a quick search on the web would tell you how they treat ‘outsiders’ as you call them, let alone about the human rights situation.
We shouldn’t rely on any chatbot, of course, but I don’t think that all chatbots are deliberately designed to spread some propaganda. The Chinese ones and many ‘Western’ bots certainly are, but not all are coded in bad faith imho.
Yeah, but there are other and much better places to go than China. The world doesn’t consist of only the US and China.
There are always isolated exceptions, but the idea to move from the US to China because the US is becoming more and more autocratic is baseless. China has been a dictatorship for decades, and it doesn’t get better because the US getting worse.
The list of researchers and others professionals leaving the US for Canada, Australia, Europe, and other democratic states is much longer. This article doesn’t make sense.
As an addition, a report citing a Chinese state-controlled media:
Chinese professionals eye Europe as US visa uncertainty grows
According to the South China Morning Post, recent uncertainty over the U.S. H-1B visa program has led many Chinese professionals to consider leaving the United States for Europe. Confusion followed a U.S. government proposal to introduce a US$100,000 application fee for H-1B visas. Although later clarified to apply only to new visas, the announcement triggered panic among skilled workers and their families.
I replaced the link, sorry.
Clean Arctic Alliance: “Growt in Arctic shipping is bad news”
Dr Sian Prior, Lead Advisor to the Clean Arctic Alliance said: “The Arctic is already under severe stress – its waters are warming and acidifying faster than the global average due to global climate change. As a result, sending container ships across the Arctic raises a lot of red flags.”
Although a shorter route might result in lower CO2 emissions, the Arctic has been largely undeveloped in terms of transit shipping, due to the risks posed by sea ice. An increase in shipping in the Arctic will lead to
- an increase in shipping’s global climate impact due to black carbon emissions – which have a disproportionately higher impact when emitted in the Arctic,
- an increase in disturbance to wildlife and to communities dependent on marine resources due to increased ship pollution including underwater noise in a comparatively quiet ocean, and
- an increase in the risk of damaging oil spills.
“In addition, the need for ice-strengthened ships or accompanying ice breakers will not necessarily reduce CO2 emissions. Ahead of the development of a new shipping route via the Arctic, an impact assessment should be undertaken and considered strategically to ensure that the highest level of environmental protection be adopted. Any ship operating on this route should be ice-strengthened due to the risk of ice and issued with a polar certification under the international Polar Code. Furthermore, there should be no use or carriage of residual fuels including very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO), instead ships should use distillate fuels or other new fuels with low black carbon emissions, and implement noise abatement plans.”
I hope Ukraine gets enough weapons to end this war and reaches peace.
Hydrogen-based steel production uses—ideally green—hydrogen from renewable energy sources to separate oxygen from iron ore. Unlike conventional methods, this process does not generate CO2, only water vapor as a byproduct. The hydrogen-reduced pure iron was produced in the HYFOR pilot plant, and the melt was carried out in the company’s proprietary research facility Technikum Metallurgie (TechMet), a one-of-a-kind miniature full-scale steelwork.
Addition:
You maybe interested in the Green Steel Tracker: It show which low-carbon projects have been announced in the steel industry, and aims to support decision makers in policy and industry, academia as well as civil society, by tracking public announcements of low-carbon investments in the steel industry and presenting them transparently in one place.
Regarding the number of project for green steel that are already announced, South Korea’s Posco, Luxembourg-based Arcelor Mittal, India’s Tata, Germany’s Thyssen Krupp, and Sweden’s SSAB are leading the way among the large steel conglomerates.
There is also a good overview for the global green cement market by market research group Precedence Research. It list 8 keyplayers: Mexico’s CEMEX S.A.B., Japan’s Taiheiyo Cement Corporation, the two Chinese companies Anhui Conch Cement and China National Building Material, Brazil’s Votorantim cimentos S.A., the two Indian companies UltraTech Cement Ltd. and ACC Limited., Switzerland’s LafargeHolcim, Germany’s Heidelberg Cement AG, and the Taiwan Cement Corporation.
But the researchers list a lot of very good projects from companies around the globe.
I don’t support the UK crackdown on peaceful protesters, but this wsws.org is a de-facto Chinese propaganda medium. That’s not a good source.