Samuel Bollendorff

Economic growth in China has left three fourths of the rural population by the wayside, below the poverty line. They have no money and cannot afford to send their children to school. The only solution is to migrate inland and become migrant workers without work permits known as “mingong”. Coal mines, major construction projects, and factories serving customers the world over are seen as a latter-day El Dorado by people leaving the land of their ancestors in rural regions now devastated by industrial pollution.