Looking homeward for work

GUANGZHOU: He drove a truck for a Taiwanese-funded shoemaker in the Pearl River Delta boomtown of Dongguan, clocking in three years at the company before it went bust last month.

With his former boss nowhere to be found, 32-year-old Hu Yujun decided to head back to his hometown in Sichuan province with several other colleagues.

After two weeks of "idling" at home, Hu found himself seeking his fortune in the south again and applied to be a truck driver for a construction firm in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.