{"id":694433,"date":"2023-07-14T19:44:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=694433"},"modified":"2023-07-20T19:31:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T02:31:34","slug":"cctv-lauds-workers-battling-the-heat-for-xi-jinpings-pet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2023\/07\/cctv-lauds-workers-battling-the-heat-for-xi-jinpings-pet-project\/","title":{"rendered":"CCTV Lauds Workers &#8220;Battling the Heat&#8221; For Xi Jinping&#8217;s Pet Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A CCTV report posted to Bilibili celebrating construction workers laboring in extreme heat came under severe criticism online this week.&nbsp; The report focused on workers in Xiong\u2019an, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/01\/22\/china-xi-xiongan-future-city\/\">Xi Jinping\u2019s pet urban development project<\/a>, who were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilibili.com\/video\/BV1XX4y1H7C5\/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0\">battling the heat to meet a construction deadline<\/a>\u201d amid a heatwave that spurred nearby Beijing to mandate that construction companies \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/beijing-bans-outdoor-chinese-capital-112520705.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG02wWhT2Yk1TUR17o28jxQXrvaVWNf-KDC64gnvJvPMCiVaB49OvwQBPVXdtN_fgicrCRj7xtLtvpwLSknAk4InM8y3TtXlhJlzSNOY0bBH5a1ZO2nWGShZYqKGEUNgQAlIoDeFy9LORoDazg-sqVxeWK7yp9XOfteXIpYZiSzQ\">stop outdoor operations<\/a>.\u201d The CCTV reporter documented roof-surface temperatures of 155.3 degrees Fahrenheit and noted that workers\u2019 necks were breaking out in boils due to sun exposure. Instead of decrying these obviously dangerous labor conditions, the report closed\u2014in classic propaganda fashion\u2014with a rosy three-part conclusion lauding China\u2019s rise, the People\u2019s agency, and worker\u2019s ostensible prosperity. The out-of-touch video led to a massive outcry on Bilibili, Weibo, and Twitter that reflected<a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/698201.html\"><strong> widespread disgust with CCTV\u2019s evident lack of concern about work place safety<\/strong><\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u4f2a\u4f73\u7a3b\uff1aRisking heatstroke to meet a construction deadline? Who forced them out there?<br><br>\u714e\u997c\u548c\u725b\u5976\uff1aIs this how it should be? Sacrificing people\u2019s well-being for the sake of a construction project?<br><br>Badioce\uff1a\u201cBattling the heat to meet a construction deadline\u201d is such a shameless boast.<br><br>\u5e74\u5ea6\u5927\u7b28\u6bd4\uff1aThey\u2019ve turned laboring under the blazing sun into propaganda.<br><br>\u65e0\u60c5\u68ee\u6797\u4eba\uff1aYou call this the \u201cworld\u2019s fastest infrastructure construction\u201d? It\u2019s all based on the sweat of our workers and the rights they will never get to enjoy.&nbsp;<br><br>\u5357\u6781\u5a03\u5a03\u9c7c\uff1aBattling the heat to meet a construction deadline. China Speed! Thumbs up!<br><br>Clannad\u53e4\u6cb3\u6e1a\uff1aHonestly, it\u2019s like they\u2019re speaking from another dimension.<br><br>\u5403\u5403\u6c49\u58211\uff1aIt\u2019s like a classic three-part essay. (1) An appropriate summary of China\u2019s rise. (2) The people are the masters of the country. (3) Everything\u2019s just peachy: everyone has their own skills and talents, their own car and home, and is working toward a goal. It\u2019s all perfect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A number of netizens spammed the comment section with a copypasta to express their displeasure with CCTV<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, let me just test the temperature up here\u2026\u201d Like hell! It\u2019s 104 degrees, these guys are still working, and you\u2019ve got the nerve to post a video like this? [<a href=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/698201.html\"><strong>Chinese<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/chinese\/files\/2023\/07\/image-1689244325783.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>July 3, 2023 was the hottest day in recorded history, with average global temperature topping 62.6 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time ever. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2381069-record-for-hottest-day-ever-recorded-on-earth-broken-twice-in-a-row\/\">The record stood for one day<\/a>. China is no exception. Beijing is seeing one of the hottest summers on record with deadly results. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/07\/07\/china\/beijing-summer-heat-40-degrees-intl-hnk\/index.html\">A tour guide died of heatstroke in the Summer Palace<\/a> and an emergency hotline set up to manage heat-related health crises has seen an average of 30 calls a day. Some cities have <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-heat-flood-landslide-drought-f0a9e3d47aea7a6ec03309070696a14f\">opened up air raid shelters<\/a> to help residents escape the heat. Farmers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/china\/2023\/07\/13\/can-chinas-farmers-cope-with-the-effects-of-climate-change\">struggling to cope with a warming climate<\/a>. There have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/06\/02\/business-food\/china-animals-crops-extreme-weather-intl-hnk\/index.html\">mass die-offs of pigs, carp, and rabbits<\/a> due to heat. At The New York Times, Nicole Hong reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/24\/world\/asia\/extreme-weather-china-food.html\"><strong>how global climate change is wreaking havoc on China<\/strong><\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In recent weeks, extreme heat has killed fish in rice paddies in southern China\u2019s Guangxi Province and thousands of pigs at a farm in the eastern city of Nantong, according to local news reports. The fire department in the northeastern city of Tianjin was called in to spray water on pigs that were suffering heat strokes while riding in a truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;] Mr. Xi has depicted self-reliance in food as a matter of national security, often saying, \u201cChinese people should hold their rice bowls firmly in their own hands.\u201d He has set a \u201cred line\u201d that the country must maintain 120 million hectares of farmland, and has declared war on food waste, especially in restaurants. The Chinese government frequently points out that it has to feed one-fifth of the world\u2019s population with less than 10 percent of the world\u2019s arable land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;] An article on the front page of the People\u2019s Daily newspaper on Monday said Mr. Xi had a \u201cspecial affection\u201d for farmers and prioritized increasing their incomes. Last month, he visited a wheat field in northern China\u2019s Hebei Province, where farmers were attempting to boost grain production by growing wheat varieties that could withstand drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[&#8230;] \u201cYou can impose more regulations to dis-incentivize local governments from selling farmland. You can subsidize farmers,\u201d said Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a fellow for international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations, a U.S.-based research institute. \u201cBut when extreme weather conditions happen, it not only creates damage, but it\u2019s also very expensive to fix.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/24\/world\/asia\/extreme-weather-china-food.html\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CCTV report posted to Bilibili celebrating construction workers laboring in extreme heat came under severe criticism online this week.&nbsp; The report focused on workers in Xiong\u2019an, Xi Jinping\u2019s pet urban development project, who were \u201cbattling the heat to meet a construction deadline\u201d amid a heatwave that spurred nearby Beijing to mandate that construction companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,2,10,14744,5],"tags":[5970,3770,6679,2509,6842,426,5385,299,1424,148,3549,4230],"class_list":["post-694433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-economy","category-law","category-level-2-article","category-society","tag-cctv","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-construction","tag-construction-workers","tag-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-labor","tag-labor-conditions","tag-labor-rights","tag-overheating","tag-weather","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v23.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CCTV Lauds Workers &quot;Battling the Heat&quot; 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