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Translation: “Beijing’s Cold Winds Are Behind You”

After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe dwellings that led to the eviction of tens of thousands of migrant workers in the capital city. Netizens angrily recalled official usage of the term “low-end population” to refer to the workers disproportionately affected by the crackdown, seeing in the campaign an excuse to expedite population control plans to drive the marginalized workers out of the city. Despite repeated