Family threatened, should I still persist?! It's terrifying, Shenzhen is under siege!! Qiqi Baba TALK 'Wake-Up Call 830' 20261115

This episode discusses the strict control measures and vanity projects implemented in Shenzhen for the upcoming trilateral summit. It also analyzes the distorted phenomenon of the CCP authorities desperately maintaining stability externally while cracking down on the truth internally, citing the case of Sichuan blogger Chen Xing, who faced police pressure, threats against his family, and account bans after filming the real wages of sanitation workers. At the same time, the program summarizes and presents the bleak situation of the education and training industry and summer camps across various regions during this summer vacation, as well as the consumption downgrading of parents and the sharply increasing life pressure on ordinary people.

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The trilateral summit is coming up soon! The state of the entire city of Shenzhen is now even more rigorous than in wartime, I think. I mean the whole city; almost everyone's status—it is said that many schools and some workplaces have started a week-long holiday, or even more, just to keep them well-behaved.

In addition, the Shenzhen authorities have issued a request, calling on local residents to avoid driving for at least one day between the 16th and the 20th. Their goal is surely to make the roads less congested. They also said, "For the sake of our guests, as part of our hospitality, we should make way for them."

They also claimed that 1.6 million car owners have registered so far, meaning at least one day these owners will not be on the road. Honestly, I really want to ask, is this purely voluntary? Just because you have a gun pointed at someone under the table, don't think that just because no one sees it, it doesn't exist. As for this summit, this trilateral meeting, I don't think the leaders of Russia, China, and the United States will mainly talk about the economy.

Although this is a meeting with an economic theme, they probably won't focus on the economy because we know the current international situation is very complex. So they will likely talk more about those issues, which should be the priority—international affairs. Although I don't know how well Xi Jinping has prepared, every detail of the entire city of Shenzhen is now being tightly controlled.

I really feel that as long as you are not "one of their own," the CCP will definitely give you, the outsider, the best treatment in the short term. I think this is perhaps one of the reasons why many Taiwanese or foreigners who have traveled to China say that China is really good. Because you are not one of them, they will act like a man on his first blind date; of course, he will show you only his best side, whether it is fake, forged, borrowed, or swindled. Anyway, what he shows you is the best thing he can get his hands on.

As for whether these things are his, whether they are real, or whether this is the real him? You only find out after you get married. And by then, it's too late to regret it. There was a blogger in Sichuan who posted a video about sanitation workers; it wasn't long, just one minute. I showed it to you before, let's review this short clip.

"Uh, hello everyone, this is Chen Xing. I just set off from Xiaojinxian this morning, and I'm waiting for my meal now. I brought my own lunch. Before leaving this morning, I asked another sanitation worker. She makes 1,970 yuan a month, working from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM, with one hour off at noon to eat, and no days off all year round. That lady, she said her chest was feeling uncomfortable and she wanted to take a day off. Today is the weekend, but she can't take a day off."

"Ah."

"Ah, I also wrote a letter to the mailbox, just finished writing it. It shouldn't be no days off all year round, brother."

However, after that, he began to be continuously harassed just because he filmed the true salary level of sanitation workers and exposed this truth. It even reached the point where he had to regularly report on his personal safety, and his family also began to face continuous threats—it came to this! Until these past few days, his account was banned. Let's take a look at this entire ongoing process, and the video he posted to talk about this matter.

Hello everyone, this is Chen Qing. Today I rode from Yilong County to Yinchuan County. Uh, there are still two days, two or three days of riding left for me to get home to Dazhou. Then today at noon, while riding up a small hill, uh, I received a video call from my mom. Anyway, she was... and later my dad also called me. Anyway, it was about, uh, the police station calling my dad again, saying that I... anyway, the meaning was asking me not to post these videos about interviewing sanitation workers anymore. And my mom... why didn't she call me? My mom said, "If people call you and you put them online, that's roughly what it means." Ah, later on, I'll play a bit of, uh, what my dad told me.

What people meant when they spoke on the phone was that you keep posting about those labor dispute relations in China, saying the wages are low, saying China is poor, or saying how things aren't managed. Then people twist that and take it abroad. If people over there do that, what can you say? That's what the police station said when they called me, right?

Hahahahaha.

That's already happened two or three times, you know. People have already made it clear to you. Those materials of yours, to put it bluntly, how many people in all of China do you think managed to get them? It's not that everyone else isn't as smart as you, and you're the only clever one; it's that others genuinely couldn't find those materials, you see. Look at how few young people across China are smearing China like that, to put it bluntly.

Go ahead and do it like that then!

Let's just look at the scenery in the distance. Huh, where is my little building? Oh, here it is.

Hello everyone, this is Chen Qing. And now I have arrived home. Just now, Secretary Tang from our community made a video call to my mom, hoping that my... my parents could send their names to them. And the content of the phone call was hoping my parents could do so every morning and evening.

Qinghua is not two.

Tell them, I said it was a video call. Tell them my whereabouts.

Hello everyone, this is Chen.

Sex.

Good, today.

Today's trip is starting from.

Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, and around one or two at noon I rode to Xuanhan County, ah. Now I am riding further towards my hometown, Nanba Town, ah. It's four o'clock now, and I'm almost home. Then yesterday, after I arrived in Dazhou City, I had an exchange and communication with some comrades and leaders from local units—just chatting. Because I started from Dazhou City, then went to Chongqing, ah, to Kunming in Yunnan, Dali, Lijiang, Shangri-La, Litang, and made a circle like that, ah, and then came back to Dazhou via Chengdu. And many townships I encountered on the road, some had sanitation workers, and some did not. Then regarding the term sanitation worker, it was actually from chatting with comrades yesterday that I learned about it, so later I deleted some related videos. How should I explain it to everyone? Just.

These small towns located in mountainous areas or relatively remote places have no factories, uh, no tourism resources, and no.

Characteristic agricultural and sideline products, you know. Many of them just farm their own land to feed themselves, so they indeed lean towards being mostly farmers—their main occupation is actually farming. And the local authorities give them... give some of them who might have slightly poorer economic conditions, ah, they give them the position of a sanitation worker, which is responsible for cleaning the hygiene of the marketplace and township. Uh, and then every month they can receive a subsidy like this. Yes.

Actually, for such a year.

When young people have all gone out to work elsewhere, and there are only middle-aged and elderly people left in the small townships, there are only sanitation workers. Only in those cities or some counties are they formal, full-time sanitation workers. In the townships, there is only a cleaner. Why? Because after I rode through so many and made a circle, it is true that some townships have cleaners, and some townships do not. I probably hadn't thought about this point before.

So those townships without cleaners are the ones with even worse finances; they have no way, uh, to provide this extra position and subsidy. And after I inquired about the salary and treatment of local cleaners and posted it online, um, then trying to get them to reach the minimum wage standard—for example, they usually make a little over 1,000, and the minimum wage standard in Sichuan is generally 2,200, but.

Is it true that the local area can only give cleaners, for example, it can distribute this subsidy to many cleaners. If local finances cannot keep up, and then you want them to raise this salary, but you give them this... well, only good things bring about good results. If this kind of thing, uh, fails to reach the minimum wage standard, it looks a bit more on the negative side.

So maybe, for example, people intended to eat and stay overnight in this small town, and then perhaps, um, accidentally saw the bad conditions here, so they wouldn't stay overnight here after all. And then they are all without young and middle-aged people; they are all middle-aged, elderly, uh, farmers. Some might have restaurants and accommodations, but you aren't doing these, uh, commercial exchanges here, so instead, maybe my original intention was good, but it might have turned out that way instead.

There are.

Thought about other people's lives.

Uh, after chatting, indeed I thought about it, right? Because indeed in some small towns, they don't even have the position of a cleaner, because many small towns don't have that many public facilities, and the small town's finances are relatively tight, so they don't have the position of a cleaner, nor will they provide any extra subsidies anyway, so people just sweep clean around their own doors, that's how it is.

Uh.

So just take it slow, slowly getting better. My Bilibili was just banned, and Douyin has been restricted from posting for half a month, uh. And in the past two months, I've been appealing. And Bilibili just said I violated relevant laws and regulations, regarding my account. I asked them which specific post.

Their reply was that to avoid secondary transmission, if they can tell me this post, then I can go back to that place, go find them again, uh, Huawei or the cleaner, right? Relevant ones, uh, to prove my innocence. In March this year, I hiked and cycled from Dazhou, Sichuan to Dali, Yunnan, and finally cycled back to Sichuan. And on the way hiking and cycling, I would ask some sanitation workers I passed by about their pay and benefits. I went further down, to a place called Miaoba Town, and also filmed a sanitation worker.

Hey, Auntie, could I ask you, how much are they paying you now?

Hongzai.

Ah.

Eight hundred a month.

Eight hundred!

Um, how is that enough!

It's fine, it's fine.

How many days a month? Ah? How many days a month do you work? How many days a month do you work! Ah! You have to come every day to work eight hours.

That rascal.

And then after I posted this video online, look, until later when I walked all the way to Chongqing, local staff from Miaoba Town drove and chased after me, hoping I would delete that video, and then I deleted it.

This original blogger has now been banned, and he said he appealed for two months, not knowing which video violated the rules, and which rule the violation was for, completely unclear. And he also said that three days ago he said he was going to Shanghai to find the Bilibili headquarters to get to the bottom of it, uh, he plans to go in December, and who knows what will happen. And down below, some netizens are very worried about him, saying don't go, you'll just disappear.

To put it bluntly, why was this blogger banned? Why were his family members hunted down? Uh, why has he constantly been threatened? It's just because he spoke the truth. This is actually a very bizarre phenomenon! Including myself far overseas, family members are used as leverage to threaten me into shutting up. It's very simple, because inside the Great Firewall, the more truthful something is, the more dangerous it becomes once you speak it out, dangerous to them. But in fact, this is very bizarre, because in real life, for Chinese people inside the Great Firewall, it's all around them, anything can be seen easily. Actually, you don't need to go through self-media to know, for example, the situation of sanitation workers, go find a sanitation worker on the street right now, ask him two or three questions, and you can get the real situation.

But you can't film it and post it up, why? Look, because for us overseas folks, once it's posted on a platform, this is no longer behind-closed-doors family ugliness, but ugliness to be seen by the whole world. The Chinese Communist Party doesn't care about the life and death of Chinese people, but it cares very much about face, it cares very much about how outsiders view it. Look at its performance at this summit.

Ah, can't we get one or two? If there are friends who are still not clear, you can watch yesterday's video of mine, it shows everyone very, very completely what kind of price the Chinese Communist Party can pay for this face project, it's all fake, all putting on an act. Then some friends might say, then why not really do it well? That way you wouldn't be afraid of others coming to see, right? Look, isn't this remark naive?

Expect a bandit to turn over a new leaf, expect an antisocial personality to transform into Mother Mary? That is definitely wishful thinking! Its nature is just like that. The existence of this political party is to plunder power at all costs. So Chinese people in their eyes are probably not even peers, not a group or ethnic group that needs mutual help, but mines to be heavily exploited. So of course they will find every possible way to mine heavily until excavated hollow. Therefore, in the eyes of those red families, the lives of Chinese people don't count at all, not counting as a living creature.

In the entire education and training circle, am I the only one who is anxious? In all electronic institutions, am I the only one who can't recruit students? I have difficulty recruiting students, difficulty renewing subscriptions, and communication is exhausting. Those of you who study well stopped studying, and those who study poorly don't study either. Doing education and training, I've figured it out, the more I do it, the more I lose. Rather than constantly being anxious and internalizing, it's better for me to take the first step out.

Packing up, getting ready to leave this industry. Look at the effort I put in; our lighting was specially added because we were afraid it would be too dim. And there's more: our tables were custom-made, all solid wood. Look at this pile of folders, all kinds of study materials, our books, our drawings, and our workbooks—everything was custom-made. Sometimes, putting in the effort just isn't enough. Packing up our loyalty cards, our display stands, our exclusive pencils.

Neutral pens for the older students.

Uh, the display stand—I just wanted to do my best and give the children the best. But, it's too exhausting. I'm done, quitting this industry from now on. I'll do some handicrafts; as long as my heart isn't tired, that's enough.

I scrolled past a few videos about summer interest classes, and they provided a very intuitive comparison of enrollment between last year and this year. It's quite strange. Where did all these children go? Many parents signed their first child up for all sorts of classes, but when it came to the second child, they weren't willing to spend a single cent. This shouldn't be an isolated case, right? There are fewer and fewer children now, and parents' wallets seem to be getting thinner too. Even summer travel programs aimed at students seem to be doing worse and worse. Every family should be most willing to invest in their children. If they aren't even willing to spend on their children, then what is the current level of consumption? Is your institution's business doing well this summer? Or, did your children sign up for various classes this year?

To all the teachers running art training centers, have your summer classes filled up? I just finished recruiting, and I've noticed that for some time now, no other art teachers have come out to recruit. Ah, the calligraphy, academic tutoring, and street dance people are all out there, but as for us in art—well, just me—don't just stay in the classroom, let's come out and find students. If you aren't recruiting, we could at least buy some grilled sausages together or chat. I'm the only one out here, it's so awkward. Are you all recruiting that fast? Are you full? Everyone is out, right? Come out, secretly.

Or just acting crazy.

I ran an art and calligraphy studio for seven years, but in the end, I couldn't hold on. In the past, the trial-to-enrollment conversion rate was over 95%. The children loved it, the parents trusted us, and most would pay in full for the whole year's courses directly. But things have changed too much in the last two years. The children still love drawing and writing, but parents have shifted from paying for the whole year to paying for half a year, then ten sessions, and now even five sessions at a time. The source of students has completely broken; the older kids are graduating, and we can't recruit new young ones at all. It hasn't been profitable since last year.

Unwilling to give up, I gritted my teeth and renewed the lease for another year, hoping to give it one more shot. I didn't expect to struggle for another half year only to see no hope. When the lease expires in six months, my seven-year-old art studio will officially close down. Despite the deep reluctance and endless regrets, I have to say goodbye to the industry I love. Next, I will step out of my comfort zone, head toward a new track, and start over. I also want to ask my fellow peers in education and training: how are you doing now? If you are also preparing to change careers like me, what fields have you switched to? Let's communicate and keep each other warm in the comments section.

Let me ask, how much are the summer class fees where you are? I'm in a small county in Dantu District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Sisters, I hadn't calculated it carefully before. Today, the tutor posted the announcement, and when I looked and calculated it, I was truly shocked. Here, the summer class fee is 3,000 yuan, starting from July 6th and ending on August 7th. You might hear that and think, 'Oh, 3,000 yuan isn't too bad, right?'

From July 6th to August 7th is one month. And they have classes every other day—for example, if you choose Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, then over a month, you only attend 15 days. Those 15 days for 3,000 yuan works out to 200 yuan a day, sisters. Ah, most of us are just ordinary families, living at the bottom of society, right? Struggling every day, working desperately to survive. My husband is a delivery driver, a JD.com courier. Now everything is in the off-season, and his delivery work is also in the off-season. Like now, after deducting the locker and station fees, sometimes he doesn't even make 200 yuan a day. And yet, for one child to attend a tutoring class, it costs 200 yuan a day, haha.

Do you think this 200 yuan is expensive? I really think it's super expensive. But what can you do if you don't send them? You have to! For example, my son is going from third to fourth grade, right? Before when he went from second to third grade, you had to know those English words for school; the teacher doesn't teach them, you have to know them when you start school. So what do you do? Isn't that just forcing you to pay for tutoring? So I think this education system is really meaningless; elementary school is meaningless, and university is even more meaningless. It's truly empty.

Next, art training institutions across the country will hear the following things:

'Teacher, we are going back to my grandmother's house, so we can't come to class this summer.'

'Teacher, our grandmother is picking the child up to spend the summer at their place, so we can't come to class this summer.'

'Teacher, we signed up for other training classes this summer—English, math, and we're going on a study tour, so we can't come to your class.'

'Teacher, we are going traveling this summer, so he can't come to your class.'

'Teacher, I'm so sorry, I forgot to ask for leave for you. Anyway, the child can't come this summer.'

Look, aren't the excuses all so similar?

Every year, it's the same excuses.

And you had 50 people scheduled to come to class.

In the end, only five people are left.

Why are some people so shameless? Last week, when the child was attending their last class, I had already reminded them. The elderly person who came to pick up the child also acknowledged that this was indeed the last class, including the fact that the main curriculum was finished. I then sent a renewal reminder to the mother and also informed her that all classes had been completed. She didn't reply to me, and I was wondering if she was just going to try and sneak in one more class. And sure enough, today, the elderly person brought the child again and insisted that the child attend. I said, 'Your mother probably doesn't want you to continue.'

The child wouldn't leave and insisted on attending. The elderly person actually knew, but they pretended not to. I couldn't just kick the child out, so I let them sit in for one class. When class ended, the elderly person came to pick up the child, brought all their bank cards, and exchanged them for a bunch of gifts.

Sigh, what is going on with this summer program? It's understandable that kids aren't coming to enrichment classes, but even the academic tutoring kids aren't showing up—it's quite bizarre. Where did all these kids go?

I guess they all went traveling. Let's stop pressuring ourselves. Principals, pack up and go have some fun too.

Ha! This summer, training institutions are completely dead. Very few people are signing up for tutoring classes. Even dance, music, English, public speaking, hosting, drawing, and chess classes have very few attendees. Even sports classes like basketball, badminton, taekwondo, etc., have very few people.

Everyone says that parents born in the 90s don't push their kids anymore; if they have money, they take them traveling and refuse to sign up for tutoring or interest classes. If you ask me, it's probably because the parents have no money left in their pockets.

This year's summer program is really too difficult! No one is signing up for arts training, and no one is signing up for sports training. Some classes only have one kid; oh, it's painful to watch. Some say parents have become rational and see things clearly now. But is it really rationality, or is it just a lack of money? Don't they want their own children to be talented? Don't they want their descendants to have a better life? Is it just about learning something, getting a certificate, and then working every day? Don't they want their own lives to be richer and more entertaining?

There's an e-cigarette today.

In Shenzhen today, summer jobs are paying 13 yuan an hour. Only a hundred people came, but nearly a thousand were needed. People go in and can't find anything, and those who haven't come out, everyone, don't come out.

It's impossible to recruit students this summer. I thought it was normal that enrichment and sports training classes couldn't recruit students. But even for academic subjects—I asked so many principals, and more than half of them can't recruit students. Can you tell me how many students you recruited this summer? Let's be honest, let's not brag, okay? In the past, we didn't even need to recruit; we lived well just by word of mouth and referrals. Later, we could live well and recruit well through ground promotion. Then we started live streaming on short video platforms, and that worked well too. And now? This live-stream recruitment is being done everywhere, and the broadcasts are becoming more and more shameless. Can we in the education and training industry unite? Let's all charge a bit more and stop using low prices to attract traffic.

It's like hurting the enemy by 800 while losing 1,200 yourself. Why do it? I don't understand. Where is the leak in education and training? Isn't it ultimately leaking into the hands of the people in the industry themselves? If you can do it, do it; if you can't, close the school. But let's not rely on very low prices to attract customers. Customers who come for low prices will definitely leave for low prices. Rest assured, the hardest customers to serve in this world are low-price customers. Can we push the prices up a bit? Can we make our schools a bit smaller, recruit fewer students, and be a bit more professional? Can we make this industry better? Can we?

Everyone, how are you doing this summer? Have you noticed a cliff-like drop in students at your school during the holidays? Sigh, it's hard, it's really quite hard. People in our education and training industry might think I'm being pretentious here, but no, I'm really not. Don't even mention grading exams or some social activities; there's no way to compare, it's really hard to put into words.

This education and training business is impossible to do! Look at me today, I wanted to lose my temper twice in one class, and I wanted to hit that student twice. Later, I really held back. I had no choice; I went outside, oh, I calmed myself down for a few minutes before going back in. I just feel that children nowadays are getting harder and harder to manage. Have you noticed why kids today are so naughty and difficult? You tell them to write, and they don't listen; you tell them to stand up, they stand up; you tell them to sit down, they sit down. But when you tell them to write, they won't write; they just go against you. How can we manage children today? I really have no way out now. Oh, it's hard for me to imagine how much longer I can persist in this industry! Principal, have you encountered this situation?

I'm the same, the same, I often encounter it too. Children nowadays are hard to manage, they are too spoiled.

It's really too hard! Why is calligraphy so hard to do? Sigh, are there any other subjects that are easier to do?

Principals of training schools, can you recommend any other subjects that are easier to do?

It is hard to say that any industry can truly survive well in the current society behind the Great Firewall, because I feel that the economy is already in complete tatters. Uh, of course, I am still referring to ordinary people here, ordinary people, because the privileged class doesn't look at this market at all, especially in a dictatorship. What market do privileged people look at? They have power, and they have money. Therefore, those who have an easier time behind the Great Firewall are more or less connected to power. For ordinary people who have no connection at all, life is truly at hell difficulty, no matter what industry you are in.

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