A time to miss migrant workers for urbanites. Where to buy breakfast? Call a delivery boy? … From Xinhua, via China Daily (photo: a breakfast vendor serving her client, via people.com.cn):
As a large number of migrant workers are enjoying the Spring Festival family reunion in the countryside, China’s city dwellers have to face inconvenience caused by the absence of some daily services provided by migrant laborers.
A Beijing resident surnamed Wang said she now has nowhere to buy steaming breakfast after the owner and waiters of a restaurant in her neighborhood went back to Chengdu, capital of southwest China’s Sichuan Province for the Lunar New Year.
In most large Chinese cities, baby-sitters, car wash workers, express delivery and takeout food delivery workers are hard to find during the festival as rural migrants, who make the largest proportion of the service industry laborers, are going home as part of the world’s largest “human migration”. [Full Text]
