China "ant colonies": China's slow economy forces college grads to live in "ant colonies.

China is beginning to send Chinese domestic maids overseas.  Here we take a look at the poor economy of China that is forcing also their college graduates to seek jobs overseas-- just like Filipino graduates who go to work as domestic maids or caregivers abroad. Read our related article why the Philippines stays poor because of the American invisible power to keep the Philippine as its slave http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/philippinesustroops-out-now-true.html

China's slow economy forces college grads to live in "ant colonies 

VIDEO  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50150718n

 July 11, 2013 7:25 PM 

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(CBS News) BEIJING -- Twenty-one-year-old Yang Le thought finding a job would be the toughest part about moving to Beijing. He was wrong.

Yang Le

/ CBS News 

 

His $600 monthly salary left him $150 for rent, not enough to afford a room with a window.
"You cannot tell if it's day or night," he told us. "The kitchen stove and shower are broken. I hand wash laundry. There's no air conditioning, I only have a fan."

His roommate couldn't stand the heat and moved out.

Despite having a college degree, wages are low for job seekers. At a recent Beijing job fair, graduates know the odds: only 35 percent have found work.

Song Xiahui

/ CBS News 

 

More than a million recent graduates have ended up crammed into cheap subdivided apartments. They're packed in so tight, they're nicknamed "ants."

These apartments -- "ant colonies" -- are illegal. CBS NEws took a hidden camera to see one with 20 beds and one bathroom. Another unit we saw slept 30.

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"'Ant tribes' refers to a group of people who come to big cities from small towns and strive for their dreams," Song Xiahui told us. "(We) live in cheap and shabby places and have a hectic life."

Song Xiahui, a 23-year-old journalism graduate, works at a magazine making $400 a month.

/ CBS News 

 

Song, a 23-year-old journalism graduate, is another member of the ant tribe. She works at a magazine making $400 a month -- no more than a supermarket cashier.

She'd dreamed of living in a three-bedroom apartment with friends. Instead, she has three friends in one bedroom.
"It was not until I entered society that I realized real life was completely different," Song told us.
As the economy slows, Song's dreams of finding a high-paying job seems well out of reach.

 

More than a million recent graduates have ended up crammed into cheap subdivided apartments.

/ CBS News

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This blog was inspired by a Filipina domestic from the Middle East who left her newborn baby – with placenta still attached – at the Bahrain Gulf Air airplane upon landing in Manila, read her story here http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/may-1.html .  Her despair and desperation inspired this blog to gather all possible stories in order to help, to inform and to empower all Filipina nannies, caregivers and maids -- to liberate themselves from abuses of all forms:  physical, rape, verbal, exploitation, overtime working without pay, et cetera.  Send us your stories.  Stay anonymous - if you like.  (No one can afford to deny this matter anymore).  Write in Tagalog, or your dialect, or English or French, or any language.  ALL nanny, caregiver and domestic maids are welcome, send your emails to  mangococonutmay1@gmail.com

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