Chen Weiquan, a 21-year-old migrant worker from Hunan province, started living an "extremely lonely" life after he came to work as a production line operator at a factory in the Qingxin industrial park this year. "I have no friends or relatives to talk... ...full story at People's Daily
from People's Daily on Thu, Jun 04 2009
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