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“Rat packs” living in Beijing’s underground to be driven out
From Beijing Times 22-year-old Shi is a salesperson in a department store near Muxiyuan. Her fiancé Guo is a trucker at a logistics company. They live in a makeshift room in a tunnel, one of thousands...
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Picture of the day: Chinese rich and poor exchange glances
A migrant worker from a rural region pulling a wooden cart was gazing at a man driving a convertible Beetle when the car owner also turned his head and looked back at the worker. (Picked from MOP)
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Picture of the day: Migrant worker climbs on crane, strips off pants to get...
The problem of wage arrears is endemic in construction sites and factories across China. A report from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics reveals that by the end of 2008, there was a total of...
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Chinese migrant workers live in graveyard
From Xinhua It has never occurred to Liu Junfeng that his parents would be living in “a place like that.” However, when he came for the first time to Taizhou, eastern province of Zhejiang, where his...
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Photos: Hangzhou’s “Taxi bros” cabbies race with tough life
From NetEase 220 yuan ($34) per day as a commission demanded by the company in the form of operating charges and rent; 200 yuan ($31) on gas. So even before a “taxi bro” (a casual slang for cab driver)...
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Photos: Chinese blaze new paths in Africa
From NetEase In the past eight months of 2011 alone, Chinese direct investment in Africa amounts to 32.3 billion U.S. dollars. “Chinese can be seen every day. There are traces of China everywhere,”...
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Photos: Empty chairs become the pain of rural China, especially on Mid-Autumn...
From Xinhua Due to the massive urbanization process, the traditional pattern of agrarian life in which men farm and women engage in the weaving and spinning has been tweaked in many rural regions in...
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Chinese veterans lose war on poverty despite winning battles
A veteran wearing dozens of medals and insignias was spotted begging on the street, according to a web post on MOP, a popular Chinese discussion forum, provoking another wave of public criticism over...
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Photos: Lunch is a luxury and rarity to China’s rural children, and you can...
Previously, one Ministry of Tofu post noted that in many Chinese rural villages, schools do not have a standard dining hall. School children from poor families bring raw rice, soybeans, Chinese cabbage...
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Photos: How much time does the reality leave to a dream?
From Xinhua and Weibo Chinese photographer Fan Shunzan graduated from Department of Photography at Chinese Academy of Fine Arts and Ecole Nationale Supérieur de la Photographie d’Arles (France’s...
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Photos: Sex workers in southern Chinese village mired in drugs, AIDS and poverty
From NetEase Forum Sex, drugs and AIDS are eroding Gejiu, or “the Tin City”, in Yunnan province. The city has more than 5,400 registered injection drug users, at least 70 percent of whom are infected...
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Photos: Chinese family of 3 lives in transformed public restroom
From NetEase Skyrocketing housing prices and rents in Chinese cities have always been a vexing issue for urban dwellers in the past decade. Luckily, necessity is the mother of invention. Migrant...
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Left-behind rural woman poisoned herself and three kids, another tragedy in...
From NetEase & Mop On March 27, a 27-year-old woman in Sichuan province attempted to kill herself and her children with toxic herbicide, after she was severely depressed by the prospect of having...
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Video: Children travel on zip-line across abyss to and from school
From NetEase, QBNews Hongde Village in Guizhou province, enveloped by mountains and turbulent rivers, cannot be accessed using any form of road vehicle. The only viable transportation method connecting...
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Curious Chinese ask stereotypical questions about India; a smarty-pants...
The following content comes from a discussion thread in a forum in Baidu dedicated to topics related to CBS sit-com The Big Bang Theory. (A condensed version can be found here.)The author asserted that...
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Chinese rural children malnourished, anemic and poisoned
Additional sources: People’s Daily Online, Southern Weekend, China News Approximately 40 percent of children in rural China are stunted as a result of maternal and childhood malnutrition, according to...
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Photos: Physically and mentally handicapped people enslaved by factory
From IFENG and NetEase A plaster-making factory in central China is reportedly enslaving mentally handicapped workers, who toil in hazardous conditions, are dragged out of bed at 6 a.m. every day, fed...
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3,000 children back to school with chairs and desks from home
From NetEase In China, September 1 is a typical back-to-school day and also time for parents to prepare school supplies for their children. In Shunhe county under the city of Macheng, Hubei province,...
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China’s ‘Basketball Grandma’ fighting aging and poverty becomes Internet star
Zhu Shumei, 76, has captured Chinese net users’ hearts lately. Standing only 150 cm tall (5 ft.), the hunchbacked granny plays basketball every day on a university campus in Jinhua, Zhejiang province...
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Farmer’s suicide attempt after son’s advanced degree doesn’t pay off raises...
A master’s graduate coming from rural China did not find an ideal job in the city and returned to his village to work on the farm. His father, who has been a peasant for his entire life, felt so...
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