On Jan, 29, team head Mr. Li and his fellow migrant workers went back to Wande Hardware in the city Huizhou for a whole year of unpaid wage. Not only were they asked to count 110,000 out of a pile of 1 mao RMB notes, they were also terribly beaten.

On Jan 31, 5 migrant workers in Beijing, who dressed as anger birds, Garfield, Donald Duck, and the Chinese God of Wealth, protested outside the headquarter of China National Radio and asked their “blood-sweat” money to be paid.

On the morning of Nov. 16, 5 little boys aged from 8 to 13 were found dead in a roadside trash bin in the city of Bijie, Guizhou after burning charcoal for warmth. Investigations said the boys were died of carbon monoxide poisoning – the night before was 6 °C (42 °F). So far, no one knows whether they are homeless or kids running away from home.

A short clip titled “Press conference of migrant workers demanding salaries” went viral online. With a setting that resembled a regular press conference by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two migrant workers incorporated high-frequency words and sentences routinely used by official Chinese spokespersons.