. >> narrator: wei zhanyan is a migrant worker in an industrial park near beijing. >> ( translated ): to make money. it was like i had the mission of saving my whole family. >> narrator: zhanyan left school at 13, to earn money so her older brother could continue his studies. by 2004, she was working for a company that makes cell phones. the owners declined our request to film inside. >> ( translated ): the factory where i work, we wire headsets. the regular wage is about 40 cents an hour. >> narrator: jobs like hers offer millions of young people a way out of rural poverty. >> ( translated ): a job brings in money and gives me self- confidence. i rented this little place by myself. i feel like this is my home, where i am the boss and can do whatever i like after work, like listening to the radio or reading a book. >> narrator: migrant life was often lonely, and she poured out her feelings in a diary. >> ( translated ): "my family's poverty depresses me, makes me ashamed, even desperate. i don't dare have any ideas or ideals." i have always wondered how come other families, other pare