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Significance
The students had gathered from universities around the country to take part in a month-long protest that began as a dispute over the right of factory workers to unionise.
Impacts
China's official trade union will come under even more intense pressure to reform.
The Communist Party's ideology makes it vulnerable to left-wing criticism that it falls short of the ideals it professes.
This protest proves that the potential exists for activists to bridge geographical and socio-economic divides.
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