Xue wu chang shi: Factory Little Sister

"The most popular fashion products and the factory workers with almost the lowest salaries are so close, yet seem so far away." This is an excellent commentary. By contributing resources, providing cheap and quality labor, sacrificing the environment, and maintaining stagnant wages for nearly two decades, China has become a major manufacturing country at the bottom end of the global value chain. The labor group is truly great; hundreds of millions of people work over ten hours a day on assembly lines creating value, yet their compensation remains at the minimum living standard level for decades. There are no large-scale strikes, no unions speaking on their behalf—this is unique in the world. Unfortunately, the foreign exchange earned by sacrificing their youth and health is not cherished by policymakers, who have been secretly subsidizing their "American father" all along. These funds will not be used to substantially improve the treatment of workers. Mr. Long even suggested on TV that these three or four hundred million people should endure hardships for another thirty years to maintain China's competitiveness, allowing some people to get richer first while others remain impoverished.