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Cake day: June 24th, 2025

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  • Hey! I can chime in here! I studied Chinese and business like 10 years ago (so my knowledge might be a bit outdated) so I can provide a bit of context.

    A lot of workers from rural China has limited work opportunities or would earn very little. So what they do is they’d migrate to bigger cities where they’d be able to work at factories (like the one in this pic) at a higher wage and more hours. Then they send their wage home. Some things that surprised me was that in many cases the workers themselves would request long hours, to earn more, and that they’d likely only go home for the big holidays like lunar New year