A Bodega Once Stood Here.

The article discusses the cleanup campaign of Chinese government in the city of Beijing that includes demolitions of illegal structures made by building walls and digging holes, aimed at driving out as many of the city's incomers as possible. It mentions that the campaign leaves a new level of legitimacy for shop owners to save their businesses, that is the right papers in the right zone, including personal residence permit listed in the right city. Other topics mentioned include Beijing's nominal population, the impact of breaking small businesses on the poor, and government's promises to control migration and to prevent peasants from using hospitals and schools of metropolises.