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No Money, No Hope, They Live Like Rats in Shenzhen

When you hear the city name Shenzhen, you, an expat might you are, will give it a thumbs-up because of its leading status in economic development, technological advancement and the city’s modernity in China.

Shenzhen once was the birthplace and test ground of China’s reform and opening initiative in the 1980s, it is China’s most important high-tech and manufacture base.

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Small in coverage as it is, the city is nicknamed as “China’s Silicon Valley”, many world-renowned enterprises are based in there including Tencent, a Chinese IT tycoon, Huawei, China’s largest smartphone maker and DJI, a world-famous drone producer. Shenzhen is widely called the Dream Land.

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Every year, countless young people flock to this dynamic city with their wildest dreams. But under the city’s dazzling appearance, there exists a DARK world, it is the infamous SanHe Talent Market. Far from talented, people who looking for job opportunities in there are probably the most untalented, most incompetent and most obscure ones. They live like rats, or even worse than rats.

Located in Shenzhen’s Longhua district, SanHe Talent Market is regarded as the worst place by locals. Just like a dirty dark world, illegal intermediary agents, illegal net bars, illegal factories, illegal street vendors and local villains are all mixed together to make the place more infamous.

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Every day, many young people come here and search for job openings. Illegal work intermediary agents help keep the whole system running in the market and it runs like that:

when a factory wants to hire a part-timer with a salary of 200RMB (29USD) per day, then the manager in charge the factory’s employment outsources the job-hiring to Illegal work intermediary agents with a salary of 150RMB, he himself deducts 50RMB, and then the illegal agents hire job seekers in SanHe talent market with a salary of 100RMB, another 50RMB goes to the agents’ pocket.

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People who make their living by working diligently should feel proud for themselves and deserve to be respected despite what kind of work they do, as long as it is legal.

But most job seekers in SanHe talent market are losers. Why is that? Because their laziness, they have no aims and hopes for life, they stay idle for most of the time and have less or nearly no willingness to work. They are labelled as SanHe Da Shen(三和大神) or SanHe Losers, they share one common tag: only take part-time jobs lasting one or two days long, require employees to pay their salary daily and in cash, work for one day and take a three-day break.

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Most of them are in desperate poverty, some of them can’t even afford their basic daily life consumptions.

At night, SanHe Da Shens have no place to live, most of them rent a bed in a hostel with 15RMB(about 2USD), some can’t even afford for renting a bed, so they find a relatively clean place and just sleep on the ground or on park chairs.

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When they feel hungry, they buy a bow of soup noodle, the noodle is cooked in a very simple way, it only costs 4RMB, 1 more RMB if you want to have a boiled egg in it.

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For SanHe Da Shens, they have been driven into a corner and can’t find a way out.

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The 27-year-old Song once worked as an assembly-worker in FOXCONN, a high-tech company famous for iPhone-assembling, but he felt tired after several-months work in there. So he resigned. He has been in SanHe for a while, he refuses to go back to work in a factory and thinks it is useless and meaningless. To support his life, Song takes daily-wage jobs from time to time. Song has no money to rent himself a house or even a bed in a hostel, he often sleeps on park chairs, but he has got arrested for that two times.

“My life is very boring. When I was a little child I had a dream, but now I only daydream. I can’t go back any more. My mom called me and asked me to go home, but I refused, it’s a shame to go home without making enough money, I can’t even afford a train ticket” says Song.

Lilei © Image | Youtube

Li is Song’s best friend in SanHe, Li is also 27 years old and he is still single.

“No girls will choose a boy like me. In a marriage or relationship in China girls ask a lot from boys, and I have nothing, I have no future ” says Li.

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Zhao refuses to be labelled as SanHe Loser and insists that he is different.

“I once saved 200000RMB in my bank account, can you imagine that, but I lost it in gambling. Every my friend around are idling their youth away, I have been influenced by their negative thoughts”

Zhao once had a good job with a decent salary, but he resigned because has no patience to work in one place for a long time.

“I don’t like the current situation either, I hate myself but I don’t how to change it, I’m now deeply trapped in this mire.”

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Recently, a worrying fact has emerged in SanHe talent market, that is more and more post 90’s workers come to this place and look for jobs. And Dongdong is one of them.

Dongdong is a 22-year-old boy, he has come here for a while and he is still looking for a job. Dong dong quitted his last job because his boss blamed him for taking nap and playing mobile games during working time.

“I can’t stand any blames, I hate to be blamed,” says Dongdong. Dongdong loves playing games either on the computer or on mobile, he doesn’t have much money but he goes to the net bar to play computer games very often.

When he feels tired at night, he rents a bed in a hostel. Bedclothes in the hostel are very dirty, but Dongdong says it’s OK.

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“Everything is fine and good as long as the hostel provides free WIFI access. With WIFI, I can play games on my mobile phone and game is everything for me.”

This documentary goes viral on Youtube and Chinese portal video websites. Viewers don’t believe that the prosperous mega city Shenzhen has a shabby and dirty place like that, they also don’t believe that men can be lazy and poor like that.

What SanHe Da Shens want are three things: high salary, easy money and quick money. They come to this big city and find it is so hard for them to achieve what they want, so they fall into desperation and gradually give up on themselves.

But they should realize that life is not so easy for most people on this planet, you want a good life you fight for it not wait for it. Always be positive and stay inspired!

“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”

–The Shawshank Redemption

Railway Police Checks to Arrival Passengers Randomly!

Shanghai transportation authorities are intensifying security checks at the city’s major transportation hubs of next month’s first-ever China International Import Expo (CIIE).

Railway Police Checks to Arrival Passengers Randomly!

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Random Security Checks

to Arrival Passengers

Passengers who get off out of town trains before and during the first CIIE will be subjected to random security checks, the railway police have announced.

Police will install security check stations and high-resolution surveillance cameras, equipped with facial recognition systems, at:

Shanghai Railway Station,
Shanghai South Railway Station,
Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station.

Railway Police Checks to Arrival Passengers Randomly!

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Shanghai railway police have been reinforced with 800 colleagues from other provinces. You can also expect similar checks upon arrival at Shanghai’s long distance bus stations.

Security Measures to

the “Strongest Levels”

That’s not the only extra precaution authorities are taking to ensure safety ahead of the event, which is expected to draw over 160,000 purchasers — and Chinese president — between November 5 and 10.

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Earlier this year, Shanghai police announced that they’d be drastically ramping up security measures to the “strongest levels” in the days and weeks leading up to the expo. Expect more of the following in the coming weeks:

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Heightened security checks for passengers and cargo traveling through Shanghai Hongqiao and Pudong International Airports

Inspections for explosives outside the airport terminal entrances and exits,
Boosted security checks at 392 Metro stations in Shanghai and three in neighboring Kunshan,
Random vehicle checks at Shanghai’s inter-provincial borders for licensed vehicles, long-distance buses, and tourist buses,
Increased crime crackdowns and random evening checks on the streets by police.

Workers have also been repairing roads and sidewalks, installing more greenery and removing overhead cables in preparation for the event.

A Few Days of Work Off

Such a big deal, in fact, that to ensure it all runs smoothly, the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal Government has issued a “Notice on Adjusting the Arrangement of Public Rest Days during the First China International Import Expo.”

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Monday, November 5 and Tuesday, November 6 have been adjusted to rest days. But as is so often the case with these things in China, those days off come at a price. Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 11 have been adjusted to workdays.

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No More Visa Agency In China? Fake News!

Recently, you may have heard the news about the Chinese government to ban visa agencies. Since then, many expats in China are worried about how to deal with the work visa and residence permit after that.

No More Visa Agency In China? Fake News!

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Actually, you don’t need to worry too much because the article you read before may be a clickbait!

Official Notice from the Gov.

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Translation of the notice above

According to the “Notice on Promoting the Implementation of the Separation of Business Licenses and Permits” issued by the State Council on September 27, 2018, the qualifications for private entry and exit intermediaries (excluding overseas employment) will be revoked in October 2018.

1. Qualification to stop entry and exit agencies for private purposes

Since November 10, 2018, the entry and exit administration departments of public security organs will stop accepting applications for private entry and exit intermediaries (excluding overseas employment) and will stop issuing business licenses for private entry and exit agencies (hereinafter referred to as “business licenses”). The business license issued at the same time will automatically become invalid.

2. Clean up the business license

From November 10 – 30, 2018, the exit and entry administration departments of the public security organs of various localities shall take back the original business licenses, file them, and destroy the blank business licenses.

3. Return the reserve fund

The exit and entry administration department of the public security organ shall complete the work of returning the reserve fund to the intermediary agency by November 30, 2018.

Correct understanding should be…

After the communication and confirmation with the China Immigration Bureau, the correct understanding should be as follows:

This agency permit is mainly about Chinese people going abroad or Chinese immigration abroad, not involving foreigners coming to China, working in China or immigrating to China.
According to the notice, the bureau will stop the permit application from November 10, 2018, and all previously issued licenses will be invalid automatically.
It means that every company can engage in Chinese immigration without a license (before this business is limited).

How’ll new regulations affect you?

The new regulations will further open up the private immigration services market because they can operate legally without the need for relevant qualifications. Therefore, there may be many small-scale agents, and it is important for you to choose a good service provider wisely.

Since the new regulations specifically focus on the “migration services for Chinese people”, it will not have any major impact on foreigners working in China.

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Business Security Strengthened with Chip-implanted Seal

News from Guangdong Public Security Bureau says that Guangdong is in the first batch pilot zones in the country for the chip-implanted company seal policy. The policy has been initialized since August 2018, the new type of chip-implanted company seal is a move to further upgrade the anti-fake level.

The policy takes effect for those companies which have been established since 26th October 2018 and need to apply the chip-implanted company seals or need company seal record services.

Companies set up before that date have no need to apply a new company seal. Companies who need to renew their company information and business licenses must apply a new company seal (chip-implanted type) after business license-renewing. That’s because banks need to check companies’ seal records before allowing any bank services. Companies having no seal records may lead to an abnormal bank account or even a bank account shut-down.

The new type of chip-implanted company seal carries a company’s valued info which will be integrated with the company’s seal records and stored in the Company Seal Public Security System.

Compared to the previous type of company seal, the chip-implanted seal has six strengths in the following aspects:

1. More authoritative.

The chip-implanted company seal is developed by the third Research Institute of China’s Public Security Department. The chip-implanted company seal can be accurately identified any time any place in the country.

2. More secure.

Top cryptographic algorithm tech has been applied into the R & D of the chip-implanted seal, it is equipped with security mechanisms like hardware firewall and access control, making it more difficult to copy and fake.

3. Unicity.

Every chip has its unicity and solely connected to only one company seal, it can’t be and is not allowed to repeatedly used in other company’s seal.

4. More convenient.

The chip-implanted company seal supports portable or desk-based terminals, making it easier and convenient to verify a company’s seal.

5. Evidence-recording.

All the verification history records of a chip-implanted seal will be recorded and stored for subsequent check and identification.

6. Lose-preventing.

If lost or stolen, the company seal holder can report that to the public security station who hold your company’s seal records to shut down the chip’s functions, then your company seal in-built with that chip will be invalid.

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