The effects of this must be seen in the context of the social counter-revolution of the last three decades, and the skyrocketing cost of housing, education and healthcare. Only a small minority of migrant workers – around five percent – are covered by medical insurance at their place of work. The majority, like their families in the village, are uninsured. Amnesty International has reported cases of migrant workers performing operations on themselves because they cannot afford hospital fees. When the central government initiated a pilot project in the city of Wuhan, offering free health check-ups for 14,000 of the city"s migrant workers, the results were shocking. They showed that about 40 percent of migrant workers continue to work despite being ill. One in five of those examined were found to have hepatitis B, while one in ten suffered from cardiovascular diseases. Two-thirds of women workers tested were suffering from one kind of genital infection or another. One of those examined was Liu Guosheng, a 38-year-old, who was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He told the Shanghai Daily the examination was his first in more than 20 years.

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