China's workers abandon the city as Beijing faces an economic storm | World news | The Guardian
Liu Weiqin swapped rural poverty for life on the dusty fringes of
China’s capital eight years ago hoping – like millions of other migrants
– for a better future.
On Thursday she will board a bus with her two young children and abandon her adopted home.
“There’s no business,” complained the 36-year-old, who built a
thriving junkyard in this dilapidated recycling village only to watch it
crumble this year as plummeting scrap prices bankrupted her family.
“My husband will stick around a bit longer to see if there is any more work to be found. I’m taking the kids.”
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