The Great Migration of China.

A STORY IN THREE PARTS FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
For rural China's destitute farmers such as the Bai family, jobs exported to the cities--many from America--offer a profound new hope for a better life.

PART 1 OF 3: "Migration of a nation"

Along a narrow mud road that cuts through the unending farmland of central China sits a peasant village so modest it hardly deserves its evocative name.

SIDEBAR: "Chained to life of poverty"

The mud was thick, and a heavy mist draped the fields the morning after a hard spring rain when farmer Bai Li Yun undertook his most important task in weeks.

PART 2 OF 3: "The factory nuns of urban China"

Bai Lin is a sad-faced 19-year-old who seems to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders.

PART 3 OF 3: "The road to Double Happiness"

Early this year, when the wheat had yet to rise in the fields of her hometown, Wang Run Chin was just another farmer's wife.