stairs on blue and yellow wall

Metal stairs on the outside of a large building, painted a bright blue with a yellow bottom wall, in the centre of the city
photo: mhobbs

yellow frame

Yantai - North - High above a "gated" - dead-end "nong tang" (alley) with an 'overhang' of brightly painted yellow framed windows at the far end, in the northern section of the city - afternoon
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red star

Yantai - North - The "red star" of the Chinese Navy on a large gate in the northern section of the city - afternoon
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migrant

Yantai - Central - Sitting outside a fast food restaurant in the centre of the city, a Muslim migrant worker selling fruit from baskets, covers her face with her hands - afraid that I (the photographer) will discover that she is not registered as a legal citizen of Shandong province. (This I assume is from habit)

In China all people (Men, women and children over thirteen) must carry "id"; cards, these are used to identify your residential status, your ethnic origins as well as which "work-unit", you belong. A work unit is for example - if you work for a factory you belong to that factories work-unit.

China currently is experiencing the largest movement (migration) of people the world has ever witnessed, this is causing great dissorder in many of the eastern (more developed) cities, due to the poor conditions and the lack of employement opportunities for "unskilled" labor.

Yet many from China's north and west continue to migrate south and east in search of a better life for themselves and their children, some legally but most illegally.

photo: mhobbs

yellow wall - white door

Yantai - East - A yellow wall, green cloth and white door in a small alley on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
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appropriate parking

Yantai - 'Appropriate Parking' Sign in a carpark at "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" with a bike leaning against a wall in the background - afternoon
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yellow wall

Yantai - East - A 'modern' bike parked close to a bright yellow wall - early afternoon
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