From The Boston Globe:
The concrete shells of this city’s rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow’s homes and offices — they’re already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China’s migrant construction workers.
Sun Yi Lin, 38, a construction worker from China’s central Henan Province(Ê≤≥ÂçóÔºâ, said he has been living in makeshift housing on construction sites in five different cities for the past 20 years.
“We build homes, but we don’t really have our own home,” said Sun, who is one of the 114 million migrant workers who roam Chinese cities looking for work, according to the State Statistical Bureau. “Apartments are expensive, and we are poor. There’s no way we can afford to buy or rent a room, not even in the distant suburbs.” [Full Text]
See article of “Poor working conditions plague Guangdong” from China Labor Watch.
