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Young tenants' Beijing dream

(People's Daily Online)

07:58, May 07, 2013

Yang Jie (first from left) talks with her neighbors in her room. Yi Xiaoqing (second from left) will move out of the apartment and go back to her hometown. To them, the apartment is like a station platform. There are always young people who come and leave.

Edited and translated by Huang Jin, People's Daily Online

In an apartment near the third ring road of Beijing, an area of about 200 square meters is divided into 24 small rooms by the landlord. Most of the rooms are 5 to 6 square meters, and the smallest one is only 4 square meters. A group of young tenants who bear the limited living space are pursuing the dream in this big city...

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