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Migrant workers facing job losses in Shenzhen

Millions of unskilled migrant workers could be forced to leave this southern boomtown in the face of its continuing industrial restructuring, a local statistician has said. The lacking skills and general know-how of migrant farmers-turned-workers could... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Wed, Aug 20 2008

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