Echo Zhang has long given up on moving back to her hometown in north-east China to be closer to her ageing parents. There simply aren’t any jobs.
“In Beijing I see new technologies changing the city continuously,” the 39-year-old engineer says. “But when I go back to Jilin, it’s like stepping back in time — it’s developed so slowly.”
Jilin, Liaoning and Heilongjiang, the three provinces of north-east China, were once the pride of the country’s planned industrial economy.
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