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In Beijing, migrants remain in the shadow of China's rise to wealth

One-third of China's workforce is made of migrants, many of whom have become second-class citizens in their own country.

Migrant workers who do construction in Beijing walk by a banner showing the Temple of Heaven, a landmark in Beijing. Beijing, a sprawling metropolis, has a growing so-called "floating" population of migrant workers from all over China.

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