YAN FEN JIE

"After a new China was established some 50 years ago, the Tiexi District rapidly developed into a typical Chinese industrial zone. Over the last 50 years, it has been the centre of Chinese industrial development as well as a symbol of a generation's dream of turning China into a powerful industrial nation. Now, the plans for China's future are taking a different form, and the region is on the decline ... I'm not sure whether unemployment is the biggest problem. That's mainly why I see the people in Tiexi District as the victims of the present upheavals, because they can no longer control their own destiny. The economic restructuring has rolled over most people like an enormous wave." Wang Bing