...will Trigger Social Unrest," in that single year alone there were 225,200 suicide incidents, resulting in approximately 156,720 deaths. The third wave of suicides is the one that has been occurring this year. Looking back at all three waves of suicide since the founding of "New China," every single one was driven by the CCP's malicious policies pushing the Chinese people to a dead end. During the "Five Antis" campaign of the 1950s, so many Shanghai businessmen jumped to their deaths because they could not pay the taxes the CCP demanded and had nowhere left to turn. During the "state-owned enterprise restructuring" of the 1990s, many laid-off workers took their own lives because losing their jobs meant losing their income, leaving them unable to survive. Why are so many people again jumping into rivers or off bridges to end their lives this year? Because the CCP has wrecked the economy, and the pressures of life have exceeded what many young people can bear. Seeing no hope left, they choose death as their only way out. Radio Free Asia reported on May 24 that over the previous ten-plus days, a string of residents in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, had drowned themselves in rivers, shocking many internet users. Ms. Wang, a former schoolteacher in Taiyuan, said that the economic environment has left many people unable to find work or to keep up with their mortgage payments: "These past few years, ordinary people at the bottom have really had it hard. Some of them are very young, in their twenties. Some are burdened by mortgages on homes that have now dropped in value—that alone is enough to push many people toward jumping off a building." Lu Qiumei, a resident of Linyi, Shandong Province, also told Radio Free Asia that many people there had drowned themselves in rivers as well, though the media never reported it. "Several people have jumped into the river—some were students, some couldn't repay their loans. Quite a few people now are jumping off buildings to end their suffering, and the numbers are up significantly compared with the same period last year. Even though the official media hasn't reported it, ordinary people all know about it." From capitalists being driven to jump to their deaths during the "Five Antis" campaign, to laid-off workers taking their own lives out of desperation during the "state-owned enterprise restructuring" of the 1990s, to the wave of young people jumping into rivers and off bridges amid this year's economic downturn—every one of these episodes bears witness to one thing alone: the evil and cold-bloodedness of the Chinese Communist Party. As long as it exists, the Chinese people will never see a better day.