Why Chinese Products cost less:

http://static.video.qq.com/TPout.swf?auto=1&vid=r010673xh67

Because our child labor has to be part of a union

Easy to understand why Chinese products cost less... the majority of their populations makes a living on a tiny fraction from what ours does. I read that 300 million Chinese people still live in caves for God sakes.

They also have forced labor camps. Many of them filled with Christians.

I will say that kid handles that dozer quite well.

Is this kid actually working or is it just a video to show off his bulldozing skills?

Yeah, I wondered too, but he seems to be very practiced at what he's doing.

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Easy to understand why Chinese products cost less... the majority of their populations makes a living on a tiny fraction from what ours does. I read that 300 million Chinese people still live in caves for God sakes.

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Easy to understand why Chinese products cost less... the majority of their populations makes a living on a tiny fraction from what ours does. I read that 300 million Chinese people still live in caves for God sakes.

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I don't know that the 300 million in caves is still accurate.

And, a lot of those caves are very well appointed--by Chinese standards, if not by ours.

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I haven't seen the video report. I've seen print pics.

I guess some of them I'm aware of were as well appointed as a single wide trailer in some regions of the USA. There were decent windows and doors etc. onh/in many of the ones I saw pics of.

BTW, I loved the kid running the front-end loader. He did a decent job of it, imho. Though I think I'd have rigged him a suitable seat. LOL. I'm sure his father and mother were quite proud of him . . . as he was of himself.

He certainly is learning a LOT more about how life works than the 51% liberal idiots expecting free handouts for existing.

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I haven't seen the video report. I've seen print pics.

I guess some of them I'm aware of were as well appointed as a single wide trailer in some regions of the USA. There were decent windows and doors etc. onh/in many of the ones I saw pics of.

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FROM:

http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=154&subcatid=71

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Some 35 million Chinese still live in caves and over a 100 million people reside in houses with one or more walls built in a hillside. Many of the cave and hill dwellings are in the Shanxi, Henan and Gansu provinces. Caves are cool in the summer, warm in the winter and generally utilize land that can not be used for farming. On the down side, they are generally dark and have poor ventilation. Modern caves with improved designs have large windows, skylights and better ventilation. Some larger cave have over 40 rooms. Others are rented out as three-bedroom apartments.

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Barbara Demick wrote in the Los Angeles Times, More than 30 million Chinese people live in caves, many of them in Shaanxi province where the Loess plateau, with its distinctive cliffs of yellow, porous soil, makes digging easy and cave dwelling a reasonable option. Each of the province's caves, yaodong, in Chinese, typically has a long vaulted room dug into the side of a mountain with a semicircular entrance covered with rice paper or colorful quilts. People hang decorations on the walls, often a portrait of Mao Tse-tung or a photograph of a movie star torn out of a glossy magazine. [Source: Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2012]
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Liu helped design and develop a modernized version of traditional cave dwellings that in 2006 was a finalist for a World Habitat Award, sponsored by a British foundation dedicated to sustainable housing. The updated cave dwellings are built against the cliff in two levels, with openings over the archways for light and ventilation. Each family has four chambers, two on each level.

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"It's like living in a villa. Caves in our villages are as comfortable as posh apartments in the city," said Cheng Wei, 43, a Communist Party official who lives in one of the cave houses in Zaoyuan village on the outskirts of Yanan. "A lot of people come here looking to rent our caves, but nobody wants to move out."

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http://www.thingsasian.com/stories-photos/3447

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Besides, these days cave homes come equipped with all mod-cons such as cookers and refrigerators and are even wired for cable TV.

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In the new fast-living era, Chinese people love anything modern from flash cars and mobile phones to digital cameras. But cave-dwelling is one thing that the people of Shaanxi province swear they will never give up on their road to modernisation.

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YOUTUBE VIDEO of cave dwellers in China:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBEEpZmO7...player_embedded

A very old 110 room cave home:

http://www.touropia.com/cave-dwellings/