Masseuse training in China
Wang Feng (front, R) and other students gesture and shout slogans during their morning exercise before a training course at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, Feb. 17, 2014.
Feng, a young mother from Henan province, decided to train as a masseuse to help support her family. She trained with Huaxia Liangtse, a massage company established 17 years ago in Jinan, capital of China's Shandong province.
It now has over 300 branches in China and has also opened outlets abroad. A training center for the company in Henan has trained well over a thousand foot massage students and the number is growing year by year.
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Wang Feng rests on a bed before she leaves for work at a Liangtse Wangjing store in Beijing, at Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center, Feb. 19, 2014.
Wang, a young mother from Henan province, decided to train as a masseuse to help support her family.
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Students look at a chart explaining how gaining new skills will increase their pay, during a company culture course at the Huaxia Liangtse Massage Training Center, Feb. 18, 2014.
The chart shows a masseuse's monthly salary ranging from 2,500 yuan ($408) at the lower level to master level of 1,0000 yuan ($1,632).