China's Hidden Underclass: The Shocking Reality They Don't Want You To See

This video explores the survival environment of marginalized people selling goods on a commercial street, the changing demographics of the Sanhe Talent Market dominated by the post-2000s generation, their disdain for societal integration, and Xiao Jiang Wuming's perspective on the existence of Sanhe masters due to societal wealth gap.
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Marginalized people engage in desperate sales for survival on a commercial street, offering 5-yuan boxed meals, one-yuan sunflower seeds, and one-yuan cigarettes.
5yuan boxed meals, one-yuan sunflower seeds, one-yuan cigarettes. Some people, desperate for cash, sell whatever they have on them. This has become the commercial street of society's lowest rung, the survival environment for the most marginalized.
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The Sanhe Talent Market's demographics have shifted from people born in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s to the post-2000s generation at Longhua Bus Station.
The sanhe talent market used to be dominated by people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. Times have changed, and now at Longhua Bus Station, the post-2000s generation has gradually become the main group. Almost everyone here is young.
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The younger generation disdains societal integration, suggesting Longhua as a place for single women to find partners who will stay as long as they are provided food and shelter; Speaker: They've been beaten down by society, disdain integrating into it, and don't care what others think.; Speaker: If there are single women looking for a partner, they could come to Longhua to adopt someone to take home.; Speaker: As long as you provide food and shelter, they'll stick with you and won't easily betray you.; Speaker: This is far better than the unreliable guys you might meet on dating apps.
They've been beaten down by society, disdain integrating into it, and don't care what others think. If there are single women looking for a partner, they could come to Longhua to adopt someone to take home. As long as you provide food and shelter, they'll stick with you and won't easily betray you. This is far better than the unreliable guys you might meet on dating apps.
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Xiao Jiang Wuming explains that the existence of Sanhe masters is a vicious cycle caused by society's wealth gap; Xiao Jiang Wuming: Sanhe masters are now a normal part of society.; Xiao Jiang Wuming: They exist today and will continue to exist in the future.; Xiao Jiang Wuming: They have no choice.; Xiao Jiang Wuming: To be a master, you need certain conditions.
Xiao Jiang Wuming, a young man from Yongchuan, Chongqing, Sichuan Province, stated that the existence of sanhe masters is a vicious cycle caused by society's wealth gap. "Sanhe masters are now a normal part of society. They exist today and will continue to exist in the future. They have no choice. To be a master, you need certain conditions." I love that they call themselves masters.