Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer spent six months on an epic 20,000-mile journey through China to capture the ordinary people fuelling the country's extraordinary growth. From struggling peasants, yak farmers and factory workers to night-club dancers, nomads and newly-rich urbanites, this is how China looks as it readies itself for the Olympic Games. Jonathan Watts reports Even on an ordinary day, Luo Jinquan is an unlikely poster boy for China's spectacular economic development. A peasant from Yunnan, one of the country's poorest provinces, he is a down-to-earth man of the soil, the opposite of the entrepreneurial urbanites often presented as the country's new model workers. Today Luo is fertilising his fields - a sweaty, smelly job that necessitates him slinging a 20kg basket of sheep manure on his back...
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