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Rural-urban migrant workers have a significant presence in China's labor force. [55] By 2006, migrant workers comprised 40% of the total urban labor force. [56] According to data from National Bureau of Statistics, in 2009 nearly 39.1% of them worked in manufacturing, about 17.3% in construction and more than 7.8% in wholesale and retail.
Because so many migrant workers are moving to the city from rural areas, employers can hire them to work in poor working conditions for low wages. [16] Migrant workers in China are notoriously marginalized, especially because of the hukou system of residency permits, tying one stated residence to all social welfare benefits. [17] [18]
Immigration to the People's Republic of China is the international movement of non-Chinese nationals in order to reside permanently in the country.. In the late 1970s, roughly 300,000 ethnic Chinese immigrated from Vietnam to China.
Significant numbers of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Burmese workers have been smuggled into China illegally to work low-skilled jobs for wages undercutting those of domestic workers and to fill vacancies left by Chinese migrant workers. [11] [12] Thousands of Vietnamese from the poorer northern provinces move to China to work illegally each year. [10]
The provincial government has organized 867 inter-provincial charter buses for more than 14,000 workers, it said on Friday. Slow return of China's migrant workers hobbles factory restarts Skip to ...
According to data from the National Bureau of Statistic of China (NBS), the number of mingong was 290.77 million in 2019. [2] The hopes of the migrant workers are that they are able to live in modern houses and may work and live in simple, but healthy conditions, which are better than those they live in on the countryside.
Not only has the mass exodus of rural residents from the countryside in search of work impacted the children of migrant workers, it has also affected the elderly left behind. With the institution of the one-child policy in the 1970s, [ 42 ] the average age in China has undergone an upward shift: 82% of migrant workers were between the ages of ...
With the aim of attracting talented people from mainland China and the rest of the world to settle and work in Hong Kong, the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme (QMAS) set up admissions criteria under which applicants could be admitted to residence in Hong Kong without the prior offer of local employment required for a normal working visa.