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- Yizhou_riots abstract "Yizhou (宜州) is a county-level city located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city is home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, while the surrounding country side is dotted with the villages of poor ethnic minority farmers. The backbone of Yizhou’s economy is sugarcane production and thousands of farmers work the sugarcane fields for very low wages. As China’s economy has opened to foreign competition the price of sugar has fallen, hurting the livelihood of local farmers.The Yizhou riots occurred in fall of 2002. The local sugar processing plant cut had recently cut rates by twenty percent that it was paying farmers per ton of sugar cane. The riots began after local officials only partially paid farmers for their crops, claiming that they would make the total payments at a later date. In China, it is quite common for local officials to pocket wages and compensation money meant for workers. On 12 September farmers protested outside the local city hall. The protests soon got out of hand and rioters entered the building, smashed windows, threw chairs and desks from the building and damaged cars parked outside. Protestors also sat on the local railway line. Local officials agreed to pay the extra wages that had been promised. Afterwards, the police admitted to holding twenty farmers who participated in the riots. Like with other anti-government actions in China, authorities censored the press coverage of the riots.".
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- Yizhou_riots subject Category:2002_in_China.
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- Yizhou_riots subject Category:History_of_Guangxi.
- Yizhou_riots subject Category:Peasant_revolts.
- Yizhou_riots subject Category:Riots_and_civil_disorder_in_China.
- Yizhou_riots type 2002Riots.
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- Yizhou_riots type Riot101170502.
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- Yizhou_riots comment "Yizhou (宜州) is a county-level city located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in the southern part of the People's Republic of China. The city is home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, while the surrounding country side is dotted with the villages of poor ethnic minority farmers. The backbone of Yizhou’s economy is sugarcane production and thousands of farmers work the sugarcane fields for very low wages.".
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