Three shift construction workers

Most are semi-legal, many are illegal, all of them are underpaid: they are the millions of migrant workers coming from the desperately poor countryside to build the new Beijing, the city that in 2008 has hosted the Olympic Games. They are working day and night in the 8.000 construction sites of the capital. When the construction frenzy will be over, they are bound to go back to their villages - and to poverty. .A construction worker is building a fence at a construction site in Beijing...
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Most are semi-legal, many are illegal, all of them are underpaid: they are the millions of migrant workers coming from the desperately poor countryside to build the new Beijing, the city that in 2008 has hosted the Olympic Games. They are working day and night in the 8.000 construction sites of the capital. When the construction frenzy will be over, they are bound to go back to their villages - and to poverty. .A construction worker is building a fence at a construction site in Beijing Central Business District..
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