FUZHOU: A 450,000-word novel on the lives of Chinese migrant workers has won favor among on-line readers with more than 500,000 page views in four months since it appeared on Internet last October. The author, Zhou Shuheng, told Xinhua that his novel would be published in printed form in the near future by a publishing company in Beijing. According to the company, the novel will be the first one written by a migrant worker to describe lives of the group, to which the Chinese literary circle had paid little attention. "Most plots are based on my real experiences while a few

A migrant worker in Quanzhou, Fujian Province found the source of his stomach discomfort last month after doctors at Chenggong Hospital removed a 200-gram, 7-centimeter long wrench and a plastic disc about the size of half a palm from his stomach.   The man surnamed Guo, from Guizhou Province, told doctors only that he had been "forced to swallow those things."   His younger brother was quoted as saying, "He is reluctant to talk about it, so we don't know anything else about it, either."   The surgeon said that Guo would recover after about

Two people were severly injured as a woman drove a Mazda 6 car to repeatedly run over a group of migrant workers in Zhengzhou, Henan province July 22.    At approximately 10 p.m., July 22, migrant workers gathered at a plaza in front of Tshinghua Unispendour (清华紫光)’s sales office building near the intersection of Fengqing Road (丰庆路) and Guoji Road (国基路) in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan Province, spreading out their sleeping mats on the ground and enjoying the cool wind at this summer night. They were either lying on the mats sleeping or chit-chatting