Zhizhong ****, 17, carried coal on his back for a living in Guizhou, a province of southeast China. Each trip, he carried a basket of coal weighing 40 kg, first crawling 100 meters up out of the coalpit, and then walking a kilometer along a mountain path, for one yuan (about 12 cents USD).
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