What's more, under China's strict household registration system, one doesn't see the shocking poverty, crime or mountains of garbage that one can find in third-world cities or America's urban ghettos. Nevertheless, there are serious problems connected to large populations of migrant workers and capitalist economic development has brought growing extremes of wealth and poverty. These issues are all sources of worry for the mainland regime.
然而，在嚴格的戶籍制度管控下，目前在中國 157 個百萬人口以上的大城中，雖未出現如美國及第三世界中令人觸目驚心的貧民窟、垃圾山或犯罪現象，卻隨著資本主義掛帥的發展趨勢，城市的貧富差距日益加大，各種隱憂仍令中共當局戒慎以對。