ZHOU HAO ::::
born in 1968, Guizhou, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou

Ji Jianghong ::::
born in 1968, Shenyang, China
Lives and works in Guangzhou

Zhou Hao and Ji Jianghong are journalists who have been actively engaged in witnessing and reporting on events related to the new social realities prompted by modernization, especially the destiny of migrant workers in the new industrial zones in the southern part of china. they have become proficient with dv cameras and film editing in real time during their years of observing and conversing with new immigrants working in the Pearl River delta, in particular those in the recently urbanized and industrialized township of Houjie. Their 90-minute documentary, Houjie Township, is a profound record of internal globalization and its endless negotiation between aspiration and crisis. Houjie is near Guangzhou and was transformed from a rural village into an industrialized township following the massive influx of taiwanese and Hong kong capital of the 1980s and 1990s. This documentary relates the precarious position of the migrant workers who built Houjie, but who are also the first victims of the post-9/11 economic slowdown, forever at risk of being laid off. For various reasons the industrial campus where the migrant workers live and work is often prohibited to outsiders, including journalists. to penetrate and document the life inside, Zhou Hao and Ji Jianghong handed out cameras to the migrant workers and trained them to use them to shoot images of their work and everyday life scenes. they came up with numerous astonishingly interesting images to expose their real lives, sentiments, moments of tension, anxiety, and happiness while “secret” aspects of a factory life are uncovered.