In the Fight Against Poverty, China’s Urban Poor Still Left Behind
In this picture taken on August 17, 2017, a girl walks toward a goalpost on a street in a migrant village on the outskirts of Beijing.
Surrounded by the sleek hi-tech campuses and luxury condominiums of "Beijing's Silicon Valley", migrants from the countryside recreate village life, cooking in outdoor communal areas, playing cards and showering in the street. But their community's days are numbered. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images
Despite living in Beijing, one of China’s richest cities, she lives a hand-to-mouth existence, earning money by collecting rubbish and reselling it.
The 1500 yuan (US$227) a month she makes has to feed three -- her husband who suffers from a mental illness and does not work, her 10-year-old granddaughter Feng Aobin and herself.
