Editorial﹕Beijing evicting poor migrants
文章日期:2017年11月30日

【明報專訊】IN the wake of a deadly fire in the Daxing district of Beijing, the municipal government has launched a campaign supposedly for the sake of people to identify and remove hidden safety hazards. But city authorities have carried out the measures against illegal structures in such a forceful manner that it was essentially no different from evicting poor migrants, which has resulted in allegations of a "clean-up campaign against the low-end population". All this has pointed to a lack of a people-oriented mindset in the implementation of policies. City bureaucrats failed to address the issue of illegal housing on normal days. Only after the mishap did they hastily take some corresponding measures out of worries that they would be held accountable for wrongdoing. But the action was taken in a rash, top-down, over-the-top and short-sighted manner, triggering a public outcry so loud that authorities finally realised they had to find remedies. This is indeed a big lesson to learn.

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