The price of progress in China: 'We traded our lives for development'
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SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - For four years at the turn of the century, Wang Zhaohong worked on a demolition crew in Shenzhen, clearing the way for the once-tiny border village to become a bustling metropolis.Now, emaciated and struggling for breath, the bedridden 50-year-old says the work he did will end up killing him.Without proper safety equipment, he and his colleagues from a remote county in Hunan province inhaled so much construction dust during Shenzhen's development boom that they..