As a result, some once-booming Chinese coastal areas now look like ghost towns, as tens of thousands of laid-off workers have packed their bags and returned to the countryside. Similarly, in Beijing’s Korean section, perhaps half of the 200,000-300,000 inhabitants – mainly workers (and their families) who are paid by Korean companies that produce goods in China for export – reportedly have gone home.
因此，随着成千上万的下岗工人收拾行李，回到农村，一些曾经繁荣的中国沿海地区现在看起来如同鬼城。同样，据报道在北京的韩国人聚居区，其20-30万常住人口中的一半—主要是受雇于在中国生产出口商品的韩国企业的雇员（及其家眷）&#45;&#45;已经回国。