Beijing has started a citywide wave of demolitions and evictions within migrant worker communities, the biggest city clean-up campaign in a decade.
The surge in evictions was prompted by an apartment fire last week that killed 19 people in Beijing’s Daxing district, just south of the city’s affluent centre and an area where many garment factories employing migrant workers operate.
In response, Beijing last week initiated 40 days of citywide safety inspections that have left migrant workers struggling to find shelter during a winter cold snap as informal settlements and businesses were shuttered with little notice.
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