Not a single resident of my neighborhood, Shuangjing, who has not ever see Zhao Ying and her husband, Zheng. Are a couple of immigrants from Henan, dedicated to the collection of recyclable waste: paper, cans, plastic bottles, etc ... Appear every weekday, early in the morning and not leave until late at night, if lucky, with the truck full. Always parked in the same place, at the corner of my street, beside a flowerbed where workers sit down to lunch at noon.
Zhao Ying, collects recyclable trash in my neighborhood.
I see them from my window. Zhao with his straw hat, taking the neighbors who bring bags full of garbage. And inside the truck Zheng, squatting, ordering merchandise. They say they are so clean and efficient will have no problems during the games.
Her husband, Zheng, make sure everything is clean and tidy. Work is play with it. Their income depends on the resale of garbage collected in the recycling centers on the outskirts of Beijing. Many have been closed on the occasion of the Olympics. The government does not pay a dime. Just give them permission to work. Are immigrants from Henan. Got the job four years ago, through a guanxi , a friend.
Beijing authorities have forced thousands of immigrants dumps them to leave the city during the Games, saying they pose a danger to the safety and health of visitors. Supposedly, many of them have illnesses, criminal records and litter the streets .. That's what the government says. So too have closed large recycling centers near Beijing, where landfills are going to resell the goods. Earn very little. To me, and all the neighborhood laowai (foreigners), we esteem. I never get more than 2.5 yuan (0.25 euros), more cans or kilos of paper used to bring him. She weighed on a scale atrotinada, says: "mmmm .." and I laughed out loud, I take out the dirty and crumpled notes of his fanny pack. Zhao is nice. But Curran has a lot to make a living as well. He says that for a kilo of paper she pays 1.3 yuan. Then resells it for 1.4 or 1.5 yuan. Prices are falling because there is more trash and few recycling centers open. All this couple wins the people send him home, where her 16 year old son with the grandparents. Want to go to college and find a better job than his. "We are the bottom of this society," says Zhao. "The rich look down on us because we live in the garbage," he adds. But Zhao keeps her smile. Talk up a storm, has an energy and good humor enviable. Her husband, therefore, the silences all the time. "Say no to foreign journalists," says Zheng. "You know what they did with Tibet." The Chinese government's propaganda deficit resulting, have managed to convince ordinary people qu elos foreign journalists are the devil and only want to load the image of China and the Olympics. It is a pity that we tap this bad paper. But if Chinese journalists are censored, who must then report the injustices in this country? Andrea
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