Tracking another sign that the collapse of China is coming, sooner rather than later.
A protest staged by thousands of rural workers in central China ended in violent clashes last week, reports say.
Several people were injured as up to 20,000 people clashed with 1,000 police in Hunan province on Friday, a local official told Reuters news agency.
The Boxun Chinese news website said the clash was sparked by rising public transport costs. A witness told the BBC sporadic incidents continued on Monday.
Rural regions of China have seen mounting unrest in recent years.
Thousands of protests were held last year amid growing discontent over the widening gap between rich and poor and corruption among officials at local level and above.
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1 John J. Simmins // Mar 14, 2007 at
If they’r rioting over bus fare,wait till they find out that 1 out of 100 chinese men won’t be able to find a wife (no matter how ugly) due to the preferential aborting of baby girls.