Construction may be quiet in the U. S. , but in building sites, mine pits, and farm fields in China and India, Caterpillar 's big yellow machines are multiplying fast.

美国的建筑市场可能噤若寒蝉，但是在中国、印度的建筑工地、矿井和农场中，卡特彼勒的黄色大机器正发挥着几倍的速度。

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GDP, but since half of China's 700m workers are engaged in farm-related work, the privatisation of farming is the biggest reason why three-quarters of China's workforce is today in private employment.

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Mr. Li and other Chinese scholars and labor experts say workers from earlier generations, who hailed mainly from poor farms in China's hinterland, were accustomed to hard farm work and more single-mindedly focused on making money.

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He marched the students off to do farm work in the villages, supervised by China's no-nonsense peasantry.

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