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China's workers return to cities By Rob Young

BBC News, Changsha, China

Chu Ching-Hu is one of an estimated 20 million migrants who gave up on life in the city earlier this year when China was

But it seems that pattern of

migration is reversing as China's

economy begins to pick up.

He had been working as a waiter in

a city hotel in the south, but the

30-year-old had to return to his

home village in central China.

Now, as the world economy picks

up and China's economic growth

touches 8%, Chu Ching-Hu is

heading to Guangdong province to

work in a pottery factory. He is just one of the millions of

migrant workers in the country

who lost their job amid the global

economic downturn. The crash forced these workers out of the coastal cities they had been working in to return to the countryside. Long journey

Sitting in a vast, humid waiting room in a railway station in Changsha in Hunan province, he explains why he has decided to return to the city again.