Security forces patrol Xintang district, a manufacturing hub in Guangzhou after recent riots that lasted three days.
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Workers in a clothing factory in Haizhu, a textile manufacturing district in Guangzhou.
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Workers make jeans in a factory in Haizhu, a textile manufacturing district in Guangzhou.
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Haizhu, a textile manufacturing district in Guangzhou.
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A jeans wholesale market in Xintang district in Guangzhou.
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More than 4,000 workers at the Simone handbag factory in Guangzhou are back at work for the first day on June 24 after a three-day protest against working conditions.
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Guangzhou.
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Tangxia township government officials in the city of Dongguan, Guangdong province, have recently been exposed by local media for building luxury villa homes.
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Unfinished villas in Tangxia.
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A migrant in Tangxia fishes on a pavilion overlooking villas dubbed "Tangxia's Zhongnanhai" (the central leadership compound in downtown Beijing) by local residents.
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Reportedly, Tangxia government sold the land to the town's major officials for the price of 500 yuan ($77) a square meter in 2008. Commercial land nearby was sold at an average of 15,000 yuan a square meter at that time.
- [Sharron Lovell/GlobalPost]