China's Hubei sends over 1,600 migrant workers to Guangdong

Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-19 17:23:43|Editor: huaxia

CHINA-HUBEI-JINGZHOU-MIGRANT WORKERS (CN)

Workers enter the departure hall in Jingzhou, central China's Hubei Province, March 19, 2020. With a high-speed railway train carrying 551 migrant workers departing central China's Hubei Province Thursday, the province hard-hit by the coronavirus are sending more workers to south China's manufacturing heartland Guangdong Province. Departing from the city of Jingzhou at 1:20 p.m., the train is the first chartered high-speed railway train from Hubei to send migrant workers to their workplaces after the Spring Festival. On Thursday, a total of 1,631 migrant workers have boarded the trains for Guangdong, with the other high-speed railway train carrying 1,080 people departing at around 3:13 p.m. from Jingzhou heading for Shenzhen. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

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