From New York Times: “Anyone who has visited China’s ballooning, chaotic cities cannot help but notice the construction cranes. It is not unheard of to count 50 cranes, maybe more, rising between new concrete apartment towers or thickets of half-built skyscrapers. They twist in the twilight haze like enormous insects.
Less obvious are the armies of migrant workers toiling below: the soot-faced men in yellow hard hats pouring cement at infinite work sites; the farmers arriving at bus or train stations, often hundreds at a time with possessions bundled in nylon sacks; the girls flooding out of thousands of dying villages to fill the humming factories along China’s southern coast.
But it is the workers that history is likely to notice. ”
The full article is here. (Thanks to China Study Group.)
