As China’s outbreak eases, migrants are bearing the brunt of the lockdown’s economic cost
The villager looked at the photograph of his dead grandmother. She would not be happy. Her ancestral altar was now blocked by canned drinks and dried rice noodles, stacked in a makeshift mini-mart in a home skirted by farm fields and graves that dated back thousands of years.
The leadership focused on the nation’s greatest domestic challenge: jobs. It wants to create 9 million urban jobs to bring down a 6% unemployment rate that doesn’t include out-of-work migrants. Wang Guoqing, a migrant worker in Wuhan, walks toward his rented home. He has worked in Wuhan for more than 20 years, but still has restricted access to the city’s social services because of his rural household registration.Such lessons came hard. In the 1960s, Pan’s grandfather used the wooden doors of their ancestral home to make a coffin for his brother, killed during the Cultural Revolution as a “counterrevolutionary” because he’d once worked on construction of a Nationalist Party building.
“Lots of people have tried and come back. They look at your Hubei ID and say, ‘We don’t want you,’” said Wang Guoqing, 48. He had been working in Wuhan for more than 20 years, he said, but hiswas still rural, which meant his family had limited access to the city’s schools, healthcare and social security.Wang’s wife worked as a part-time nanny. They lived in a one-bedroom apartment in an old neighborhood of Wuhan that was slated for demolition, paying $70 a month for rent.
“My friend is stressed, too. He’s always thinking when he goes to bed, ‘How to be funny tomorrow?’” Chen said. “And if he wasn’t successful, everyone would call him a fool.” But Pan also hoped his kids could stay in the village. A hundred generations of Pan’s have lived here, according to their ancestral records. Their graves were overgrown, tangles of brush pulling them into the earth, but they were here.
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