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Shanghai's Structural Expansion

Similar to Beijing’s exploitation of rural construction workers due to the high volume needed to build 2008 Olympic structures such as the Bird’s Nest and Water Cube, Shanghai’ fuel to find construction migrants last year occurred with oral contracts, sub-par housing, and indecent hours. Shanghai’s chengzhongcun are characterized by poor quliality housing, limited buildings, and euphemisticall termed ghettos with poor hygiene and saftely conditins much like Beijing’s chengzhongcun.

According to the World Bank, China is expected to build more than half of the worlds construction with more than 2 Billion suquare meters of floor space every year between now and 2015. Shanghai is directly in part of this with construction allowing fiscal expeditures to grow 8% in a year due to the World Exposition. With a 17% population of liudong renkou, Shanghai consists of a large minority of Rurual Hukou status individuals. This megalith of people put strains on infrastructure, natural resources, and exacernbates the differnce between the already distant low and high classes.

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