Migrant workers feel job pinch

Updated: 2009-02-03 13:13

By Zhang Haizhou (chinadaily.com.cn)

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Only six days after the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day, thousands of Chinese labor workers?filled the?Jinjiang labor market in Chengdu, Sichuan province.?

More than one million migrant workers from the southwest China province were forced to return?home as the global financial crisis caused a wave of factory closures and layoffs in the more developed costal provinces.

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