For most of the year, 80 per cent of Gufeng's working-age population is absent, the majority 230 miles (and six hours) away in Shanghai, or in Zhejiang, an affluent coastal province further south.

在一年的大多数时间里，孤峰乡里80%的青壮年劳动力都外出打工，他们大多在230英里外(6小时车程)的上海、浙江，或是更远的南方富庶的沿海省份务工。

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It is still, though, a very poor country: a significant chunk of its population experiences a kind of material deprivation that has, thankfully, been absent from advanced Western countries for a couple of generations.

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