February 14, 2017
Housing worries
shaoran2012Image caption Yilin tells the BBC’s Rob Young she has no idea how long it will be before she can afford a flat In an international restaurant in the centre of Beijing, diners are tucking into the self-service buffet of fish, noodles and dim sum. One of the waitresses, 24-year-old Yilin, is working a late shift. She moved to the capital from the nearby province of Hebei three years ago. Yilin tells me she is in Beijing, like the other seven million migrant workers here, to earn money and improve […]