Some migrant workers from Anhui and Henan provinces have been living in a cemetery because they could not afford to rent an apartment in Taizhou city, Zhejiang province.

Migrants live in cemetery to avoid high housing costs

Liu Junfeng, 14, a boy from Henan who visited his parents while they were working in Taizhou, felt disappointed when he learned that his parents' house is a shed standing between two tombs.

"I came here to see my parents during my summer vacation, and I had to stay and play around the tombs where my parents live," the boy said.

"I thought they worked in a modern city and lived in a better house than what's in my home village."

Liu's father, Liu Shengli, said he had come to the city six years ago and had taken several jobs. "The price of renting a house was too expensive and I had to stay here," the father said.