Workers, who earn wages of 50 yuan ($7.32) per day, carry metal cages down an under-construction highway outside of Changning (昌寧縣城), Yunnan. The cages will be filled with rocks and placed along the side of the river below to keep the bank from eroding. In this part of the country, where there is so little industry (thankfully for us), these men are happy to have any work at all. For comparison, we met a peasant family taking a cartload of cabbages to market who expected to gross 60 yuan ($8.79) for the load, and they don't sell a cartload of cabbages five days a week.
