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Around China: Young migrant worker seeks urbanization

(Xinhua)    19:36, November 26, 2013
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JINAN, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- After four years working in a city, Yin Tao, 27, in casual clothes with framed glasses, looks just like an average Chinese urbanite. All he lacks is a household registration, an apartment and a permanent job.

From inexperienced apprentice to capable technician, Yin has made huge gains and sacrifices by settling in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, leaving his parents behind being the most painful.

"I go back home for just two days or three in Spring Festival, National Day holiday or the busy farming season," said Yin, whose hometown is only two hours away in the province's Dong'e County, famous for its donkey hide gelatin.

It was hard enough for Yin to leave his village, but it is even harder to go back, considering the frustrations born from the shattered city dreams of his parents.

His father came to city to be a truck driver when Yin was eight. "But my father still regards himself as a farmer," Yin said. "He just can't be separated from a rural farming life."

Yin's life plan is in better shape than his father's. He is determined to live, raise his family and let his parents to spend their remaining years in comfort in the city.

"What can I do in a village?" Having almost forgotten how to farm, Yin admits he could not possibly get used to the inconvenience of a rural life again.


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(Editor:YanMeng、Chen Lidan)

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