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The economy China. The Economist China's decades of miraculous growth were powered by migrant workers, but those workers

have families, and all too often they've had to leave them behind when they head to jobs

in factories and in the big cities.

By the UN's latest count, in 2020, 67 million Chinese children were left behind, often in villages with their

grandparents or in small town boarding schools. These days, a new experimental policy is helping

some migrants to bring their children with them. I went to the city of Yiwu in Juryajan province

to see how this policy is working.

I'm Alice Su, the economist Senior China correspondent, and I'm here with my co-host,

our Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie.

This week, we're asking, are cities starting to see migrants differently?

And could that mean a better future for left behind children?

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