Modern times making a mark at migrant workers' marketplace

Sanhe was once a mecca for people seeking work far from home, but the decades-old employment exchange in South China now faces an uncertain future, as Luo Weiteng reports from Shenzhen, Guangdong.

They look abandoned, forgotten and lost in another part of the world, but they aren't desolate, at least not yet.

Since the start of the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s, migrant workers from across the country have played a major role in the economic rise of Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Over the years, millions have poured into the city's Sanhe labor marketplace, having endured long rail journeys from their hometowns.