Caught between a rock and a hard place
By Ma Guihua and Jiang Guibin | China Features | Updated: 2010-01-07 08:04
A girl from Shaoyang county, Hunan province, calls her parents using her teacher's mobile phone. Li Aimin |
Statistics show that some 130 million farmers left their homes in 2007 to join the ranks of migrant workers in cities across China, working in construction, manufacturing, textiles, and services.
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