From AP, via Fosters:
Bent under a load of corn stalks that weighs as much as he does, 61-year-old Xu Rongsheng trudges up a mountain road to the farmhouse where he was born and raised five children.
Xu gets by on what he can grow on a few acres, meat and eggs from ducks, chickens and sheep in his backyard and occasional gifts from friends and relatives. He wishes he could pass the house on to his children, but they’ve left for jobs in the city.
The story is the same throughout much of China’s poor countryside, home to 800 million people. Farmers like Xu have just manage to make ends meet while eastern cities have ridden to prosperity on an export-driven economic boom.
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