Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - construction worker -
A lack of safety awareness among migrant construction
workers and inferior equipment are the two biggest
safety threats to China's booming construction sector -
With 22% of China's "working" population employed in
the construction or related industries - and most of these
being imigrant workers (from distant western provinces) the
employment conditions and wages are some of the
lowest of any developing country
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - grape man
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - icecream man
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Huaihua - University - sleeping worker - the afternoon rest
is part of daily life in Hunan Province, due mainly to the
high humidity and tempertures which can excede 37c.
Im often asked... "have you had a good rest?"
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Huaihua - University - near the gate of the "school" -
man with baskets - late afternoon - "heading home"
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Huaihua - University - football oval re-construction -
lone worker looks over his "work"
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Huaihua - University - near the gate of the "school"
two boys - at their stall
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Huaihua - University - "garlic" flowers
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - restaurant - young boy watching
television - one of the many versions of "The Monkey King"
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Huaihua - University - football oval re-construction -
workers - "tipping gravel"
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - couple - "dinning alfresco"
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - cooking - alfresco -
one of the many small restaurant's that line
Yingfeng East Road toward the centre of town
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Huaihua - University - man with hat - a "worker" taking a break
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - sidewalk cafe - bright -
sunny morning
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - walking man - bright -
sunny morning
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Huaihua - central - overpass - old man at his stall
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - Lunch - a vegtable -
stall woman eats lunch
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Huaihua - University - demolition - gate and wall
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Huaihua - Unversity - demolition - the gate, the wall and
a pile of rubble is all that remains of "the art building"
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Huaihua - University - stairs to nowhere - these stairs lead
from a basketball court to nowhere
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Huaihua - University - early morning - lone basketball player
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Huaihua - University - washing day - one of the chinese teachers
apartments - this old building is used by the "single"
chinese teachers on the campus
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Huaihua - central - sitting woman - a farm woman sits, after a
long day - selling grapes - her baskets almost empty
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Huaihua - University - paper recycling - paper man - stacked high -
collecting paper from the chinese teachers apartments within the university
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Huaihua - University - early morning - old man on his bike
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I have once again updated the design - to a more "chinese flavor" - based on images from the period of the cultural revolution
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Huaihua University - Demolition - only these and a few piles
of bricks remain, after the almost completed demolition
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I have re-designed the "blog" with more of a chinese "flavor"
recreating images from "the cultural revolution"
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Huaihua - centre - waitress - at a "plush restaurant" opening a beer -
Cecilia and I went out to dinner - with Lucy - ofcourse
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Huaihua University - Demolition - music -
the thin iron beams seem to resemble musical notes
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Huaihua University - football oval re-construction - workers -
concrete mixing - a young woman is one of the "workers"
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Huaihua University - football oval re-construction -
workers and " bosses"
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huaihua china - via satellite

Huaihua University - Demolition
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Huaihua University - Demolition
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Huaihua University - Demolition of the "art building" continues
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Huaihua - centre - little boy playing - you will notice
that I have placed a "make poverty history" link in the top
right of this site - please participate - every 8 seconds a
child dies from neglect and or poverty - this need not be so!!!
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Huaihua - centre - sidewalk stall - evening preparation
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Huaihua - centre - four ducks
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Huaihua - centre - sidewalk stall - chow-mein (stir-fried noodles)
- chow-fan (stir-fried rice) and other delicious dishes
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Huaihua - centre - a super-market celebrates it sixth birthday
with "specials", a young boy waits for his younger brother -
who is taking a 'spin' on a coin (One yuan) operated ride,
whilst his dad waits "not so patiently"
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Huaihua - centre - overpass - "under" the overpass
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Huaihua - centre - walking street - the "other-end"
of the street - ice cream break - a man and his bike
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Huaihua - centre - walking street - the "other-end" of the street -
a woman sits either waiting or resting by her "hand-cart"
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Huaihua - centre - walking street - the "other-end" of the street - "hand-pulling"
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Huaihua - centre - walking street - the "other-end" of the street
- Close to the main railway station, this part of the
"walking" street or "the mall" is run down and obviously
alittle more residential and "industrial" than the other end
of the street. This man carries machine parts from one
of the many small industrial workshops
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Huaihua - centre - walking street - walking
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Huaihua - University - close to the gate of the university -
these stalls are open from early in the morning to around 11pm -
water mellons, cold drinks and tofu-lau (soft sweet bean-curd)
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Huaihua - University - two kids
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Huaihua - University - washing drying in the morning sun.
These are actually mattresses' or bed padding, which is
usually not used in the summer, in there place
bamboo bed rolls are used
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