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Rescuers carry the body of a victim after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.
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Chinese residents help carry a crying woman in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11. A landslide killed dozens of people including seven from a single family when it smashed into the village on January 11, state-run media said.
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Chinese rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.
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Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.
A landslide in China's southwest Yunnan province killed at least 29 people, according to China's state media. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
At least 26 people have been confirmed dead, two others injured and dozens more remain missing after a landslide hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday morning, according to local authorities and reported by Xinhua News Agency.
-- Reuters
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My heart goes out to those families effected by this.
I agree JAcob, it is so tragic, that when the weather turns bad, village after village in these mountain regions ends up suffering because of the landslides. It is the poor who are hit every time.
The Chinese do not provide for any safe building construction for their population who live outside of the cities. They are left to fend for themselves. One of the high prices paid for not having a national building code enforced for those living outside the cities and ignoring the living conditions of the poor. There have been articles trying to address this problem for a number of years now.
China's leaders simply doesn't care about those outside of its urban centers. Because of the high population, it deems any who die from natural or man made disasters, expendable.So events like this, just break ones heart. As long at it gets the essentials to those that matter, nothing will change. Prayers for all those who have been affected by this tragedy.
This is the result of "playing in the Big leagues" - before you get the fundamentals covered. These Great leaps forward are all well and good, however - its obvious that equality in State benefits is not equally shared.
Our country is similarly having to address this same issue. We have squalid housing, overwhelming poverty and need to re-visit our commitment to providing a safety net for those who are unable match the rapid pace of technological advancement.
There was a misunderstanding which stated that people in manufacturing job would be OK - they would all be able to find "Hi-Tech" jobs when their Manufacturing jobs were outsourced. That was a fallacy. Human nature has proven that people who could take hi-tech jobs, had years to train for those positions - that was not an option for the 50 - 60 year old bread winner, who found himself displaced and tossed on the junk pile when his company was moved over seas.
In China, much the same is still happening. They are tearing down ancetrial homes to put up skyscrapers - but where do the castaways live? Many of them are going back to ancestrial villages - and building whereever and how ever they can.
The State (Communist Party) can not do both - displace and resettle the castaways and put up showy modern cities, while tearing out the old heart of the cities.
We went through this back in the 60's and 70's... large swaths of the city were bull dozed - with the idea that HUD would re-build the dumps, dilapidated housed. The ran out of money, eventually we saw that those Old hosing stocks had turned into Ghetto's - even worse than they were before they were Developed.