Boa Morte hurt his right knee after catching his studs in the turf at the Beijing Workers Stadium following a tackle with Spurs' Benoit Assou-Ekotto.
Two summers ago, a truckload of Beijing municipal workers turned up in my neighborhood and began unspooling heavy-duty black power lines, which they attached to our houses, in preparation for a campaign to replace coal-burning furnaces with electric radiators.
He plans to give the bulk of tickets to the live show, which will be staged in a to-be-determined Beijing venue, to migrant workers who are stuck in Beijing during the holiday.
In Beijing some census workers have already resigned, citing the pressures.
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Ever since China opened its doors for business in 1978, there have been foreign workers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other large Eastern coastal cities.
Beijing has not clamped down as workers have thus far targeted foreign-owned companies.
Gangs of workers are rebuilding the Beijing-to-Lhasa road that crosses the Qinghai and Tibetan plateaus: a government minister says China will build 150, 000km (about 94, 000 miles) of new highways in western China over the next decade.
But all 300 of them have one thing in common: they are children of migrant workers who have come to Beijing in search of a better life.
In the capital, the files of most privately employed workers are guarded by the Beijing Talent Centre, which is housed inside a former concubines' compound at the Forbidden City.
This is not some housing complex for Beijing's hundreds of thousands of migrant workers.
China's one child policy started in the 1980s curbed population growth, but Beijing now faces a rising tide of retiring workers.
They were young and middle-aged workers, people who lived in Beijing but did not have the much-prized residency permit that would allow them to settle with their families.
When I worked as a consultant in Beijing, it was clear that my co-workers seemed to be on a constant rotation program among the top multinational management consulting firms operating in China.
China has an estimated 250 million migrant workers, most of them in Guangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
In the 1990s, Ai came to international attention when he helped establish the avant-garde East Village in Beijing where a group of artists took up residence in impoverished migrant workers housing on the city's outskirts.
"The growing army of laid-off workers demands an expansion of the private economy, " says Zhong Pengrong, director of the Beijing Prospect Consultancy, an advocate of private enterprise.
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