China receives poor outlook report

Azerbaijan News.Net
Thursday 8th January, 2009

A stark economic report on China has been run in China’s Outlook Magazine.

The magazine has claimed China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent among migrant workers and university graduates.

A reporter, Huang Huo, said in the the magazine: 'Without doubt, now we're entering a peak period for mass incidents. In 2009, Chinese society may face even more conflicts and clashes that will test even more the governing abilities of all levels of the party and government.'

Huang Huo also wrote China would face a year of politically tense anniversaries, especially the 20th year since the June 1989 armed crackdown on pro-democracy protests, saying the anniversary had already galvanised a campaign by dissidents and rights advocates demanding deep democratic reforms.

But Huang said the biggest threats to China's stability would come from graduating university students, facing a shrinking job market and diminished incomes, and from a tide of migrant labourers who have lost their jobs as export-driven factories have shut.

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