Coronavirus: China’s workers and graduates fear for their future - BBC News
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Back at the factory, via Italy, Ms Yakubova has her chin up. “I am hopeful that after one, two, I don’t know, three months, let’s say in the near future, that we can restart.” Some staff have already quit to find other work. The minimum wage she was forced to put them on was not enough. Huang and his wife are staying, but they have a plan. “We are under great pressure to live here,” he said. "The rent, the cost of living... if we can’t hold on we will leave."They will go back up north if the jobs end, and become corn and wheat farmers again.Millions of migrant workers like them could do the same. It would be an unpredicted reversal of China’s decades long vast urbanisation.
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