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Economy Takes Toll on China's Migrant Workers

The Lunar New Year holiday in China is the main chance each year for the country's 130 million migrant workers to return home to visit their families. Many return to the countryside, hundreds of kilometers away from their jobs. This year's travels are...

from YouTube on Wed, Feb 04 2009

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