By an incomplete tally, to date 50 people have died in the Daozi village of Leiyang, Hunan. If we include the whole of the Leiyang Municipality, that number is 55. Since the late 1980s, young people from Daozi village have migrated south to work, filled with dreams. In the booming city of Shenzhen, they worked the most lucrative job on the construction site—in drilling and blasting. Ten or more years later, these workers are have been collectively diagnosed with silicosis, and death for them is fast approaching.
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