One person toiled at construction sites. The other shopped and went skiing. Both got Covid. The movements of 2 Covid patients in Beijing paint strikingly different portraits of the city, a contrast that has stirred debate about income inequality in China.
Users on China’s Twitter-like platform Weibo said the two patients’ activity logs epitomized the country’s widening wealth gap and the struggles of those at the bottom of Chinese society.
But that economic growth has also widened China’s wealth gap, and it is now among the most unequal countries in the world. Last year, Xi pledged to tackle the issue by introducing a, which he said would include efforts to “regulate excessively high incomes” and “encourage high-income people and enterprises to return more to society.”
“The pandemic has already exacerbated the wealth gap, and the social welfare system is not well-rounded here — you will meet obstacles nearly everywhere,” one Weibo user wrote.“They use their own strength to earn money, people should not feel pitiful about him,” one Weibo user wrote. “Manual workers do not need pity, they need respect.”Thomas Peter / Reuters
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