Migrant workers

An American friend, Neal who had been here to adopt a chinese baby 7 years ago, asked me if the juxtaposition of the extremely advanced living standards and the extremely low cost agrarian lifestyle still exist side by side today. The answer is yes. Manual labor still seems to the primary form of construction here in China. Men use shovels and axes to dig trenches for pipelines to build their office buildings downtown, laborers use feather dusters to clean building exteriors, donkeys to carry building materials, brooms made of branches to clean the roads. One day, the children of these 2nd class citizens are going to be educated enough to not want to do these kinds of jobs. Outsourced to private companies or other new immigrants. Just like the way our 1st and 2nd world countries have evolved.