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Tag Archives: migrant workers
There’s a void called the countryside – visions of dying village life
This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. Migrant workers tend to be presented as an anonymous mass, and thought of either as … Continue reading
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Tagged children, Danwei.com, migrant workers, Old People, Shenzhen, Village
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The benefits of allowing free land trade – reflections on land allocation in China
This is the 1510 Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. Although China controls an extensive territory, pressure on land is high. A large proportion of … Continue reading
Posted in 1510 Digest
Tagged city, Danwei.com, farmers, Land Rights, migrant workers, Mountains, regulations
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Unknown migrant worker dies after lying 20 days under a bridge in Henan
In Zhengzhou (郑州) in Henan province in November, a migrant worker lay under a bridge for more than 20 days. He didn’t seem to be very ill, just cold, hungry and destitute. People came and went, even emergency medical services … Continue reading
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Urban Culture and Cities
Tagged Danwei.com, homelessness, migrant workers
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Children chained to a wall by parents working at Guangzhou construction site
What do you do when you have two children but no-one to look after them and not enough money to put them in kindergarten? The New Express Daily (新快报) from Guangdong has a picture on its front page today showing what happened … Continue reading
Posted in Front Page of the Day, Urban Culture and Cities
Tagged children, Danwei.com, education, migrant workers
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Migrant kids learn to swim
The front page of the Southeastern Economic Times today shows a picture of kids practicing their swimming kicks, along with the headline: “Migrant kids learn to swim. The article says that to ensure these kids enjoy their summer safely, the Municipal Party … Continue reading
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Danwei.com, gaokao, migrant workers, swimming, university
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Northern Girls: interview with author Sheng Keyi
Qian Xiaohong is a young woman from a village in Hunan who went to the boomtown of Shenzhen in the 1990s in search of work. She is bold and optimistic, if sometimes a little naïve, and has short black hair … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Books and Art
Tagged Bei Mei, Danwei.com, migrant workers, Northern Girls, Sheng Keyi, Shenzhen
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What happened to the men who built China?
Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore takes a look at China’s first generation of migrant workers transformed China, building its skyscrapers, manning its factories and digging its mines.
Posted in Migrant workers
Tagged Malcolm Moore, migrant workers
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Beijing seeks to reduce its low-end workforce
Beijing to limit low-end industries and other sectors employing large numbers of migrant workers. High-end talent to move freely between Beijing and Tianjin.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged migrant workers, policy, The Beijing News
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Next-generation migrant workers need love too
If You Are the One (非诚勿扰) does up a special migrant workers episode.
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Tagged If You Are the One, migrant workers, Reality show
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Sexy Beijing: Hard hats
Sexy Beijing is back with a video about Beijing’s migrant workers, and their dating and relationship issues.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged migrant workers, SexyBeijing
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