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China's Economic Slowdown Hits Migrant Workers Hard

Beijing said today that China's economy grew by 6.9% in the past year. Still pretty robust you might think, but it is the weakest rate since the global financial crisis. Fears over the fall in industrial output and construction prompted huge volatility on stock exchanges over the summer. And for China's migrant workers the slowdown is hitting hard. Danny Vincent reports from Harbin in China.

(Picture: Chinese workers seek work at an employment center. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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