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The Event:
In cities all over the "Rust Belt," thousands of workers have gathered in protests. In March and April 2002, 30,000 laid-off workers from 20 factories in Liaoyang province took taking part in demonstrations where they shouted "Workers want to eat, workers want a job!" In Fusun, 4,000 to 10,000 workers blocked the main road of the city and gathered outside the management office to demand better unemployment terms.
The Question:
The Liaoyang and Fusun workers came from what two Chinese industries, among the hardest-hit by the WTO reforms?
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Event Background:
The People's Armed Police, whose main function is to quell unrest in rural and urban areas and the People's Liberation Army were called in to break up the March-April riots. The police also arrested protest leaders, including Yao Fuxin, the leader of the Liaoyang Ferro Alloy workers, who in May of 2003 was sentenced in a controversial hearing to seven years inprisonment.
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