Appoint officials who are representatives of the country towns and who are willing to fight for the residents for investment in social infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, modern agricultural practices, roads, bridges, Internet access. They should also get the provincial capital to invest in industrial and economic activities in poorer regions.

It is disappointing in the country town where this poor girl’s reside that the officials are envious, selfish and cruel. It is their public duty to issue Hukou, Identification card. They are suppose to serve the public interest and not their own self-interest. But it happens everywhere.

The true question is can he still make a living if he gives up on trying to find a job “at the same Level”? Can he find a menial job while supporting him and his family?
If the answer is yes then you no longer have answer you own question in circles.

Don’t pull straw man out of no where and don’t BS me on things you can’t even spell right let alone understand.
“Guanxi” as so you have commented have since been marginalized by the introduction of migrant workers. Nobody truly knows anybody anymore nor do they need to. Workers from every corner of the country congregates into one factory to work. You analogy of “Guanxi” in this context is some 20-30 years out of date.

Don’t get me wrong you may still need “Guanxi” but It’s one thing when you talk about corporate elites in Shanghai its another when you only need a menial labor/office job.

My contention is this girl in China lives in a very different society where jobs are offered through quanxi – connection. Everything in China works through connection. Since you have not lived in China, I don’t expect you to fully understand how difficult the situation is for someone without connection. Even in U.S. a 55 year old manager who had been laid off will find it hard to be hired again at the same level. More likely he may have to work as a laborer unless he has connection. As of now, even in U.S. there will be more and more people without jobs. Sometimes, things happen to people regardless of one’s efforts. Again, people who refuse to understand others that are not as priviledged in terms of availability of opportunities have this arrogrance of “the successful man’s syndrome”. Someday, until they also take a fall in life, they might understand. Have some humility and compassion towards others!

Obviously you have no idea how life in the west is. I am a Canadian citizen I am not on a student visa, and neither is it illegal for me to work. My government do not subsidize my tuition nor can my parents afford to pay my tuition. Student loan hardly covers half of what I pay for tuition. I work two labor jobs. One graveyard shift and another weekends to pay my dues. Seeing how there is a shortage of manufacture work in Vancouver of any kind, I fail to see how she can not manage to find a job in Shanghai while I can manage two. As if there is a shortage of labor jobs in shanghai LOL. How many restaurants need a dish washer?
Excuse me if I am not sympathetic to lazy bums.

And Please explain how working labor jobs in between school is privileged…?

Where do you find two job? In U.S., right. Compared the opportunities available, you are priviledged. Firstly, if you are on a student visa, why are you working, unless of course you are a graduate student paid by the Professor. U.S. immigration would not allow students to work, if you are you are breaking the law. But, if you have graduated and got a job in U.S., you are still priviledged because U.S. society gave you the opportunity. Your personal financial matter is not the consideration, but the options offered by U.S. is the issue. This peasant girl did not have the opportuniety as you. That is the difference.

What you said is a far stretch and a lack of comprehending the difference. A woman who has no job, poor health, family responsibility, financial pressure is shallow? Obviously your priviledged life in U.S. has totally deprived you of a deeper perspective. Her life and your life in U.S. can be differentiated between earth and mars. You live on earth where live is rich and easily sustainable, while she lives on mars – a dead planet with no live sustaining force. I assume you don’t know poverty as a grinding daily struggle to survive , and neither do you want to understand or care.

Frankly I think this is yet again a case of a shallow woman expressing her indignities. BTW one doesn’t have to be poor in order to be shallow. It’s just that circumstance allowed a poverty stricken woman to have similar views of an economically well off female.

Similar case from across the globe…
‘Spectacular’ Woman Seeks Rich Husband on Craigslist.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3712365