Inside This Issue: Eyewitness Report on China
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"A Meeting with an Underground Shanghai Student 24 SOCIALIST ACTION JULY 1989 the bad situation. When we asked who the new housing was for, we always got the same answer: "Not for workers." Most of the new housing was for foreigners, officials, or those whose factories were profitable enough to provide new housing.
Many workers complained that living conditions were getting worse. Inflation is a serious problem, estimated at 30 percent per year or more. In a neigborhood restaurant in a workers' area of Shanghai, one group of young workers told us that prices, especially on vegetables, were going way up.
"Reforms hurt the people"
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