Migrant Workers Confident Beijing's SARS Prevention

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Migrant Workers Confident Beijing's SARS Prevention

Beijing-based migrant workers are showing their confidence in the city's SARS-prevention measures by opting to stay in the capital, rather than returning to their home provinces.

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Beijing-based migrant workers are showing their confidence in the city's SARS-prevention measures by opting to stay in the capital, rather than returning to their home provinces.

"I am convinced by the effective quarantine measures at our construction site that Beijing is even safer than my hometown," said Liu Yuqiu, a 31-year-old migrant worker at a construction site in northern Beijing's Tiantongyuan area.

And none of Liu's 464 migrant worker colleagues have left Beijing this month fearing the SARS outbreak, according to Zhang Huaqing, vice-manager of the Beijing Shuntiantong Construction Company, which runs the site.

The construction site has been operating under closed-door management since last month, when SARS broke out in the capital. But no SARS case has been identified until now in the area.

Liu and his colleagues seem quite refreshed on Friday when they met a large number of visitors, probably for the first time since April.

Villagers in Langezhuang village in northern Beijing's Changping District enjoy the same feelings, together with the 1,272 migrant workers who also live there, twice the number of permanent residents.

Reporters from home and abroad took part in the event, which was organized by the Beijing Municipal Foreign Affairs Office and information office on Friday.

Some university students who rent rooms in the village left for school last month after their universities asked them to do so, according to villager Hao Bingyi.

In another development, South China's Guangdong Province is now considered to have entered the post-stable stage, and during this period the weekly news briefing is planned to be delivered by the provincial and municipal related officials, according to Li Shoujin, director of information office with the provincial people's government.

The daily infectious cases have dropped on or below 3 since May 9 , and, for the first time, on May 13 the province realized a "zero report."

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