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老干妈工厂：一个中国小镇的经济复苏样本
疫情下中国经济是如何复苏的？老干妈所在的贵州小镇昌明镇，提供了一个样本。《纽约时报》记者以贵州的昌明镇为样本，记述了中国小镇在此阶段发生的变化。“老干妈”等品牌，对中国小镇的经济复苏起到了怎样的作用？对于中国的乡镇劳动力而言，这意味着怎样的变化？
英文原文
Blue-Collar Boom: How China Bounced Back From the Virus
蓝领潮：中国经济从疫情中复苏的重要因素
By Keith Bradsher
The smell, salty and pungent, wafts through the freshly paved streets near the gleaming new factory.
崭新的工厂周围，新铺好的街道上，飘荡着一股咸咸的、浓烈的味道。
The factory is owned by a company called Laoganma, which makes a piquant chili-and-soybean sauce famous across China for its power to set mouths watering. In a time of global pandemic, when the jobs of working people around the world hang in the balance, the factory’s scents signal opportunity.
这座工厂所属的公司名为“老干妈”，这里生产的辣椒豆豉酱能刺激食欲、令人垂涎欲滴，因而闻名全国。在全球疫情蔓延之际，世界各地劳动者的就业状况都不明朗，但源于这家工厂的香气则意味着潜在的就业机会。
Now workers are flocking to Changmingzhen, a once-quiet farming town ringed with green mountains and rice paddies, from which young people once fled for better jobs elsewhere.
工厂所在的昌明镇曾是一个安静的农业小镇，有青山和稻田环绕。当地的年轻人曾逃离这里，去其他地方寻找更好的工作；而现在，却有许多工人涌入这个小镇。
It stands as a testament to China’s stunning post-coronavirus revival.
新冠疫情之后，中国出现了惊人的复苏，而这个小镇就是其见证。
Even before the coronavirus, officials strove to put idle hands to work. The national government just built a modern expressway and a bullet train connecting Guizhou to a neighboring province. Laoganma and other companies soon followed. The town buzzes with construction laborers throwing up apartments for new workers.
即使在疫情之前，当地官员就已经在努力地调动闲置劳动力。中央政府新建了一条现代化高速公路，还兴建了一条连接贵州和其邻近省份的高铁路线。以老干妈为代表的多家公司尾随而至。现在，镇上到处都是建筑工人，他们为新来的工人们建起了一幢幢新公寓。
Wen Wei was one of the first workers. She carries spices to the production line and earns $620 a month. Her husband, who fries hot peppers, earns $1,200 a month.
文维是最早一批加入昌明镇老干妈工厂的工人。她负责运送香料到生产线，每月赚620美元。她的丈夫负责炒辣椒，月收入1200美元。
Laoganma’s package deal lured them to Changmingzhen. It offered a free apartment for them and their two children and free meals at the company cafeteria. They pay only for water and electricity. “You can’t find such a high salary in other places,” she said.
吸引他们来到昌明镇的，是老干妈的包食宿合同，其中包含了给他们以及两个孩子的免费公寓，还有在公司食堂的免费餐食。他们只需要支付水电费用。文维说：“你上其他地方，找不到这么高的工资。”
