Not Just for Show
Compared with the big-budget galas featuring celebrities and gorgeous stage backgrounds, the Migrant Workers' Spring Festival Gala, which was held in Beijing ahead of this year's Spring Festival, was a decidedly more humble affair. The show was composed, directed and performed by migrant workers and their children
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Work Hard, Play Hard

On February 1, the Fourth Migrant Workers' Spring Festival Gala was held and recorded at the Nine Theater in Beijing's Chaoyang District. The gala hosted performances by some 100 factory workers from Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Taiwan.

When the final performance—the yearly staged choral piece A Hymn to Laborers—started, the audience stood up and sang along in solidarity with the actors on stage.

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