외자 대철수, 베이징은 골머리! 인민해방군(PLA)은 도대체 무슨 짓을 했길래 다시 나무껍질을 뜯어 먹나? 치치바바TALK 제970회 20260915

The video discusses the current wave of manufacturing closures, the exodus of foreign capital, youth unemployment, and extremely low wages in China. It contrasts the false prosperity promoted by official propaganda with the dire living reality of the grassroots population, revealing high office building vacancy rates, an increase in street vagrants, and the intense social reality of involution.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi 88, I am Qiqi. What are they doing here, what on earth did this tree do wrong? I really have to speak up for this tree; its bark is being inexplicably gnawed off like this. Everyone knows the role of bark to a tree—without bark, the tree will die, so bark is the most important thing, yet it is being treated this way. What's even more important is that the bullet comments scrolling past left me a bit dazed; it seems they are for real. What on earth are you people writing these bullet comments feeling grateful for? Grateful for eating tree bark? First of all, I want to emphasize a fact to everyone. I don't know if it will shatter the filter for many people, but it is a fact: back in those days, many people went to be soldiers and fight in wars because they had nothing to eat. They were using their lives in exchange for the silver dollars distributed by the recruitment. Very few people actually fought for some kind of ideal. To put it bluntly, joining the army at the very beginning was just to get a bite to eat. I am not saying whether there were later motivations like ideals or defending the country, I am just saying that at the very beginning, very few people went with that motive. Right at the start, it was basically just to get a bite to eat. I think friends watching my video should be able to accept this reality; it's unlikely they went for some ideal when the People's Republic of China first began. So if the soldiers had to gnaw on tree bark, then basically ordinary people's families must have been in a state of starving to death. Of course, I am not saying that national heroes should not be commemorated, and I am definitely not saying one shouldn't feel emotional about the act of gnawing tree bark. The most important thing is, first of all, whether the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s army actually resisted [foreign invaders]—you should know quite clearly in your hearts. In addition, commemorating revolutionary martyrs and the act of gnawing tree bark are two different things. What they are doing is purely using brainwashing tactics to provoke a sense of guilt in China's current younger generation. For example, people of my age group, right—making me feel guilty toward our revolutionary martyrs. But this kind of psychology actually completely ruins a person. Commemoration and remembrance are absolutely necessary, and we should treat the history of that period seriously. However, for this kind of behavior to be heavily promoted or to praise and romanticize the act of gnawing tree bark, it gives rise to a thought in me: does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s army have nothing left that is worth remembering? Is there nothing else they did, to the point that you can only remember them gnawing tree bark, or remember them wearing straw sandals, or remember them not having thick clothes to wear? Can they only make us feel guilty and remember them through these aspects, rather than anything they actually did?

When Tesla raises wages, people say it's malicious wage increases. Now that foreign capital has basically all left, let you guys also experience the taste of malicious wage demands. Online, you guys keep cursing; don't talk about not paying wages, they fire you and there is no compensation at all. You chose this yourselves, right? I think today I worked for seven hours in that place and made 18 yuan. No, you heard that right, seven hours for 18 yuan. I miss working in foreign-funded factories so much. Now domestic factories are truly like hell, a dozen yuan an hour, and you still have to go and be grateful. This life is truly desperate. Let me emphasize this: over 12 hours a day, 13 yuan an hour. Those who can't accept it can leave, this is just the going rate right now. Sorry, sorry, I haven't finished delivering my order yet, I really can't stop coughing. Why is it like this again? I feel Shenzhen is so exhausting. Even crying isn't enough; I cry a big cry three days and a small cry two days. I don't know what I'm crying for. I cry because things don't go smoothly, I cry because I can't find a job, I cry over rent—I'm crying over everything. Brothers, truly, I feel like I can't hold on much longer, truly, I'm so tired. Sometimes I wonder, I am 20 years old, why can other people's 20 years be happy every day while my 20 years are just thinking about what—this kind of day? Sisters, can you believe it? Now there are actually 13 yuan an hour jobs in Changzhou. Didn't I enter a factory over the past couple of days doing express sorting? If you don't exceed the quota, it's 13 yuan an hour. The job I was doing required 100 items an hour to meet full quota, and I only managed two to three hundred in a whole day. If you don't exceed the quota, you get 13 yuan an hour. Calculated this way, is this too hard? Can this be done? A woman doing odd jobs works a full 30 days a month, over 450 work hours, 15 hours a day, making five to six thousand yuan. We men can't even compete with her when it comes to risking our lives for money.

Came to check out a factory today. The boss of this machining factory has quit and is ready to go home to farm. Everything is being sold off in a bundle. Manufacturing is really too hard right now. Entering September, orders have noticeably decreased. Over the past two years, my phone hasn't even rung, let alone quote requests. Now there is zero work, an instant wasteland. It's been over ten days now, basically with no work. Guests received and accommodated on the same day. Things are going to be truly miserable next stage. The next stop is Vietnam, moving the factory to Vietnam. Mechanical manufacturing is relocating its factory. How is the manufacturing business in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam this year? Who knows. Let me show you this specialized market; the entire market has no people. I do TBE materials, and I originally wanted to come to the specialized market to see if I could find some clients, but I couldn't spot even two ghosts. There used to be many manufacturing factories here, but now they are closing down one after another. Not a single one made money before saying they were quitting; they were all dragged down to death. After these bosses go bankrupt, in the current macro environment, wanting to make a comeback is practically impossible. Either they go work as laborers or go back home to farm. Now there are more and more beggars and vagrants on the street. In 2023, I was wondering why there were so many, and by 2024 I found there were even more than 2023. Now it's 2026, and there are even more than 2024 and 2025. What on earth is going on? Many people will say, 'How come I haven't seen them?' You go out at night to overpasses, underpasses, parks, and those unfinished buildings—go take a look, there are too many to be accommodated. Now in the city center you can occasionally see a few, but for the sake of social impact, as everyone knows the current macro environment, those relatively famous vagrant bases have all been sealed off, and areas with high pedestrian traffic have been subjected to expulsions. Nobody talks about this because in our country discussing these things is taboo. Once these vagrant populations are exposed on a large scale, it makes them look incompetent, which is not allowed under the existing system. This is why the news shows a scene of prosperity while the reality is one of dire suffering.

On the one hand, stimulating consumption and employment, we chose to stimulate real estate. Between lowering housing prices and lowering interest rates, we chose to lower down payments. Between distributing cash and distributing cars, we chose to issue documents. Between buying houses and buying cars, we chose to buy lottery tickets. Young people are even more interesting: between getting married and getting divorced, they chose not to marry; between having a first child and a second child, they chose not to have children; between raising children and raising elderly parents, they chose to take care of themselves first; and between going to work and striving for success, everyone chose to go burn incense.

This is the work schedule for August from a certain new-energy vehicle supplier. As you can see, August had a total of 31 days, and he worked 31 days. The average daily working time was 15.8 hours. On August 4, the working time was the longest, reaching 17.5 hours. On August 19, the working time was the shortest, but it was still 12 hours. Looking above, his total working hours for August were 474 hours, and his total income was 10,428 yuan. Averaging it out, his income per hour was 22 yuan, and for every hour he worked, he could buy one spicy chicken leg burger. After seeing this, I don't know what else to say, because no matter what I say next, my reach will be restricted. The only thing I can do is read his work hours for August again: total working hours were 474 hours, total income was 10,428 yuan, average income per hour was 22 yuan, and for every hour he worked, he could buy one spicy chicken leg burger. I have finished speaking.

Many of our domestic products have great competitiveness internationally, but the competitiveness of many products is obtained by squeezing the labor of migrant workers, sacrificing their working hours, and through their endless overtime. Furthermore...

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현재 전반적으로 꽤 힘들다. 항저우 쪽의 오피스 빌딩 공실률도 매우 높다. 우리 층은 지금 기본적으로 다 이사 나가고 우리 회사 하나만 남았다. 이 세입자들도 다 이사 나갔고, 이 집도 이사 나갔고, 이쪽에 붙어 있는 곳들도 전부 이사 나갔다. 여기는 예전에 라이브방송 스튜디오였는데 지금은 완전히 텅 비었고 다 이사 나갔다. 이쪽에 있는 몇몇 회사들도 공실 상태이고 안에는 텅 비어서 인원도 없고 더 이상 임대하지도 않는다. 이쪽 안에도 마찬가지다. 원래 연정(年证) 측과 같이 사무실을 쓰던 곳인데 전부 텅 비었다. 이쪽 집도 공실이다. 지금 기본적으로 이 층에는 우리 회사만 남아 있고 나머지는 다 이사 나가고 텅 비었다. 외국 자본이 빠져나갈수록 중국 국내 경제는 더 비참해진다. 중국공산당은 애초에 전혀 믿지 않았기 때문에 외국 자본을 쫓아냈다. 왜냐하면 자신들이 내수를 통해... 우리는 내수가 완전히 충분하고 14억 인구로... 이걸 다 소화할 수 있다고 여겼지만, 사실은 전혀 소화하지 못한다는 것이 증명되었다. 그러니 앞으로 펼쳐질 비참한 꼴은 우리 함께 지켜보면 된다. 자, 이상이 이번 호의 전부 내용이다. 날 후원하고 싶다면 회원 채널에 가입해 주기 바란다. 나와 편하게 대화를 나눠보고 싶다면 회원 라이브 방송할 때 들어오는 것도 아주 환영한다. 나도 여러분과 좀 다른 주제로 이야기 나누는 것을 매우 기대하고 있다. 그럼 이번 호 내용은 여기까지다. 다음 호에 보자.