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Story summary
- A former laptop assembler sleeps in Kunshan’s Zhenchuan Good Samaritan Park, where workers gather morning for gig jobs.
- Former factory worker Hu Xinbing lost his Kunshan electronics job after robots replaced screw-driving and now does gigs.
- Professor Zhang Dandan estimates 40 million gig workers in China’s manufacturing sector, where some factories have up to 80 percent staff.
- Recruiters arrive at park at 4 a.m., where vendors sell haircuts and lunchboxes for a dollar.
