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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「民生在勤」 and its explanation.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「民生在勤」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

The livelihood of the people lies in hard work.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mín shēng zài qín

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 sang1 joi6 kan4

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