Migrant workers are the unsung heroes of China's economic miracle. Numbering more than 270 million, they abandon their impoverished farms and villages to move to the cities, where they run the factories and build the highways and high-rises that have made China's growth the envy of the world. Now, as China's economy slows, the country's leaders have a new mission for them: Buy homes. China is looking for ways to get migrant workers to help buy up a huge glut of unsold homes that is dragging down the country's economic growth. Chinese leaders have eased taxes and down payment requirements. They are taking new steps to offer mortgages. And they have eased the tough laws that traditionally have...
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