[Photo provided to China Daily]Under sweltering summer temperatures of 40 C, a highly-skilled team from M-Grass toil on ecology projects in the glitzy United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.

Previously, the family of four, including his father, mother and elder sister, lived mainly on the meager salary of his father, who used to toil as a road maintenance worker.

China's infrastructure upgrade sees works progressing rapidly amid recovery hopesDuring the weeklong Spring Festival holiday in late January, when hundreds of millions of Chinese crisscrossed the vast country to head home from their places of work for customary family reunions, Wang Ao and his team of four construction workers toiled away inside a tunnel, helping build a new railway line in eastern Zhejiang province.

"I would rather work in the resort than toil in the field, considering a barista job earns me much more," she said, adding that she will have income even in winter, a low season for farming but a peak period for snow and ice tourism in Northeast China.

The master looks effortless as she stitches elegantly in her cozy, air-conditioned workshop, but in fact, she often has to toil for three whole months to complete just one customized wedding gown that may require over 100 procedures.

Gan looks ready to toil, but in fact, her field is online, where she has more than 8 million followers on social media.