Mind the wage gap: Chongqing subway farmers highlight inequality in China
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Elderly Chinese farmers carrying enormous baskets of vegetables squeezed into a subway station as its doors opened before dawn on Wednesday, on the outskirts of megacity Chongqing. As the economy took centre stage at a key political meeting in the capital Beijing thousands of kilometres away, (…)
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Mind the wage gap: Chongqing subway farmers highlight inequality in China
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