Pyramid scheme hits the homeless
By Xu Jingxi in Guangzhou, and Hu Yongqi and Zhang Yuchen in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-06 08:06
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From top: Cement pyramids prevent homeless people from sleeping underneath overpasses in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. A homeless man sits outside the West Railway Station in Beijing. Cao Duoyun and her husband Wang Changliang live beneath the Haidian overpass in Beijing. Every day they beg for donations to buy train tickets so they can return their home in Hebei province. Zou Zhongpin / China Daily Feng Yongbin / China Daily Hu Yongqi / China Daily |
A new local government measure that targets rough sleepers has prompted debate about how they are treated, report Xu Jingxi in Guangzhou, and Hu Yongqi and Zhang Yuchen in Beijing.
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