In pictures: China's rural workers


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For years, men and women left their farms to work in the factories. But now China is trying to turn back the flood.

Twenty million migrant workers have lost their jobs already.

The government is enticing them back to the farm with subsidies and promises of free training to help them set up their own business.

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