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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.
Mingong (Chinese: 民工) are migrant workers in the People's Republic of China, who, starting in the last decades of the 20th century, have been travelling from the countryside to the cities to work. It is a recent phase of migration in China.
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]
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 ...
China has also been the destination of illegal immigration, particularly along the China–North Korea border, Guangzhou, Guangxi Province, and the China-Myanmar border. According to 2020 Chinese census , China has 1,430,695 immigrants, dividing between 845,697 foreign nationals and 584,998 residents of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. [ 1 ]
Dagongmei worked many different types of labor in the cities and were often separated from the male migrant laborers. As China established special economic zones and other newly industrialized sectors in the 1980s, dagongmei dominated the workforce in those areas. [1]
China's platform economy has grown substantially since the early 2010s, with its transactional volume reaching RMB 3.7 trillion in 2021. [6]: 155 The platform economy has absorbed a large number of workers from China's decreasing manufacturing workforce and from its population of internal migrant workers.
The total number of migrant workers in 2020 was 285.60 million, representing a decrease of 1.8% from 2019. [22] Of these, 169.59 million were migrant workers employed outside their hometowns, a decline of 2.7%, while 116.01 million worked within their localities, a decrease of 0.4%. [22]