The Chinese Worker

In China they have a word for it. baoba means "protect eight," the 8% annual economical growth rate that officials believe is critical to ensuring social stability. A year ago, too thought hitting such a figure in 2009 was Pipe dream (Fantasy, daydream). But China has done it, and this year it remains the world's fastest-growing major economy-and Economical stimulus ( Economic stimulus )For everyone else. Who deserves the credit (Rewards, honors) ? Above all (First, the most important), The tens of millions of workers who have left their homes, and often their families, to find work in the factories of China's booming Coastal cities (Coastal cities)-In plants like the Shenzhen Guangke Technology Co.'s, just outside Hong Kong, which sits amid A jumble(A bunch of chaos) snack stands, cheap clothing stalland old men dragging Carts (n. Car pulling)Filled with candy to login to workers On their day off (After Work). Near the factory we found some of the people who are leading the world to economic mic recovery: Chinese men and women, their struggles in the past, their thoughts on the present and their eyes on the future.