Thread: China is having a similar debate!

As I surfed the web this morning I came across this article and just had to share it.

Foreigners to Face Employment Restrictions in Guangdong

Xinhua: South China's Guangdong Province is drafting a regulation to restrict the employment of foreigners and to ban them from certain jobs.

Under the proposed regulation, the provincial labor and social security department will divide jobs into three categories -- "encouraged", "restricted" and "forbidden" -- to be published annually, said a spokesman with the bureau.

For jobs in the "encouraged" category, the prospect foreign employees will be issued permits. Employers will be charged fees for hiring foreigners for "restricted" positions.

The employment of foreigners without permits will be illegal, said the spokesman, without indicating specific jobs in the three categories.

Foreign students and foreigners without residence permits are ineligible to work without government approval, and they risk fines of up to 1,000 yuan (about 130 U.S. dollars) for working illegally.

This act was intended to cut crime among the growing number of foreigners illegally residing and working in Guangdong, said Yan Xiangrong, a deputy of the province's people's congress.

An estimated 10,000 foreigners are living in Guangdong, many of them financially insecure and involved in crime, such as drug trafficking, fraud and theft.

In the first half of this year, 102 foreigners were arrested on criminal charges, more than triple the number of the same period last year.

The local public security department plans to set up a data base at the end of this year, recording information of foreigners' visas, residence status, travel and departure and entrance registrations.
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The link below goes directly to the article and a forum that I truly enjoyed reading. When I got to the 25th post I decided I had to add this to our sight.

Keep in mind though that China's web access is censored. I attempted to join the forum but could not. There is however a poster 'TraderVic' who claims to be IN Chicago but I believe he is in China and originated from Chicago perhaps. I could be wrong.

Hope you'll enjoy this as much as I did.
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http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/viewthread ... 3D1&page=1

This is nothing, China recently built a fence along it's border with North Korea in record time because of all the poor Koreans coming in illegally.

Originally Posted by Bowman

This is nothing, China recently built a fence along it's border with North Korea in record time because of all the poor Koreans coming in illegally.

If they think that's bad they ought to wait until the regime of Kim Jong Mentally Ill completely collapses.

You reap what you sow, and the fact is that the DPRK wouldn't even exist if it weren't for Red China and it wouldn't need immigrants if it weren't for the one child policy.

Population bust, millions of disgruntled males, I'd like to see how the CCP retains power. They're going to need a lot more tanks, IMO.