Retirees in China can enjoy their benefits from health with the days numbered. Last Thursday, the 15th, the streets of the country were filled with protesters who wanted to show President Xi Jinping that they are totally against the cuts in expenses that will harm them.
According to the government, this would be a type of reform. The changes will serve for new retirees to be included in the benefit, soon they will make a kind of redistribution of registrations. Not everyone is in favor of the decision.
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The first protests took place in Wuhan on February 8. Others were created in northern China, in Dalian. The authorities said that the protests were not even noticed and that they did not know how to comment on what happened. In an interview with the BBC, a protester said that there were police at the demonstration who blocked the areas of demonstrations to prevent other people from being able to participate in the movement.
The Chinese government had announced that it would break retirees' participation in health expenses. Coincidentally, the change was predicted when the country left the focus of the Covid-19 epidemic not long ago.
And going against the government's position, the critic pointed out that the real intention of the social security cuts would be so that the president could cover the expenses they had with the Covid-19 tests during the pandemic.
Censorship attempts in the country did not prevent some videos from easily spreading over the internet, but managed to control the protests so that they did not take on larger proportions. During the act, there are videos of elderly people singing the communist anthem in the form of a complaint against attitudes against retirees.
On the Weibo app, similar to Twitter, the protests also began to be seen. The #healthinsurance tag, written in Chinese, was removed from the site's evidence when it started to gain a little more attention.
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