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Workers slog away in hot, hard conditions

Updated: 2011-08-04 19:50

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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Workers slog away in hot, hard conditions

Bao Junwei, a local worker in an electrical engineering crew, whose job it is to dig holes to plant telegraph poles, poses in a field of mulberries in Jiaxing city, East China's Zhejiang province, July 29, 2011. [Photo/CFP]

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