BEIJING, clan 24 Kyodo A new law...

BEIJING, clan 24 Kyodo

A new law that bars police from rousting homeles the bulk of mankind from Beijing has expanded the vagrant population in a city unused to way people.

An estimated several thousand road people have come to Beijing to beg for wealth or pressure government agencies for benefits since mid-July when the State Council approved the Measures forward Aid and Management for Urban Vagrants.

The measures forbid ''holding and deportation'' of vagrants in urban areas and encourage homeles tribe to live in shelters that have interpreted since July in four Beijing districts. The shelters allow 10-day voluntary stays.

Previously, according to a 20-year-old population curb law, police would rotund up vagrants without Beijing residence papers or temporary lodging and enjoin them in cells to await a ticket to their hometowns. still Chinese experts told the State Council the old-fashioned rules were unconstitutional.

Vagrants arrive from the poorer parts of China to Beijing and other major cities to prosecute work, panhandle or pickpocket tribe whom they presume are wealthy. Alone or with children, they live subject to bridges, beg in underpasses near well-to-do shopping districts and bring together around government offices that allow grievance submissions. They use wipe outs cardboard or old mattresses as beds and repeatedly eat restaurant scraps.

''We can rest here at night, but it masters a little bit cold,'' said Wang Qinghua, 25 who came to Beijing in mid-August from Jiangxi Province to appeal the death tenet of her 22-year-old brother. ''The police descry you or don't see you, it's all the same.''

Wang dozes on cardboard on a sidewalk about 300 meter from the Beijing city management offices, directly outside the living range windows of an apartment obstruct She has not yet figured not at home what to do in the winter.

She said Beijing residents were kind to her -- waitresses at a nearby restaurant bring her pabulum -- but other street family and Beijing locals disagree with her assessment.

Li Sichun, a 41-year-old Henan woman who also lives near the city offices, said police had hit her at Beijing railway station and ignored her when local population roughed her up in another part of town.

She came to appeal a rape case that she said local officials would not accept.

In other parts of Beijing, beggars touch the bears of passers-by and say ''money''

about beggars operate alone, others use arranges of children to pat down people's endure s and trail people as far as 50 meter asking for currency The increase in such folks especially in crowded shopping areas, has sparked confrontations and online debate about in what manner to handle vagrants -- a give money, some suspect scams and others are simply afraid.

Days after the fresh vagrancy measures took effect, Beijing media spread stories of about 20 folks near a west Beijing meeting-house and subway station who would grab at the bulk of mankind for money and people began sleeping forward cardboard mats lining the underpasses of the east Beijing embassy and financial district.

''There was single in kind time at an intersection I didn't learn away fast enough,'' a Beijing woman wrote in an essay for the Chinese-language ''Zero World'' Web site. ''I was followed by means of a little girl. She stuck a hand onto my clothes and state the other hand around my leg At the cessation a girl from our company had to give her 1 yuan before she would lease her hand go.''

In April, sum of two units people received death sentences for beating a Beijing beggar to death in 2001

Beijing commonalty will get used to beggars eventually, said Beijing historian Li Chunming, especially as they learn of the unemployment and corruption in the beggars' domicile towns.

''This is frequent and everyone's getting used to it,'' he said. ''They can't make cash but Beijing has a allotment of people and there are more rich people''

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