China’s Migrant Workers Lack High-End Skills – Businessweek
China is already facing the challenge of a shrinking labor force. Its working age population—16 to 59—declined by more than 2 million people, to about 920 million last year, compared with 2012. And...
View ArticleChina pushes forward urbanizing migrant workers – Xinhua | English.news.cn
China pledged increasing efforts to help migrant workers win urbanite status, removing restrictions in towns and lowering threshold in big cities, said a national plan unveiled on Sunday. The country...
View ArticleChina’s Young Migrant Workers Earn More, Send Less Home – Businessweek
China’s younger migrant workers are better educated, spend more, save less, and prefer living in China’s bigger cities. They make up close to one-half of the migrant workforce, according to a survey...
View ArticleChina’s 430 Million Families Shrink and Age – Businessweek
China’s families keep shrinking in size, says a new report by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, released earlier this month. It’s well known that the One-Child Policy played a key...
View ArticleThe Change in China’s Hukou Policy Is Slow to Help Migrant Families –...
On July 30, China’s State Council announced plans to abolish the old residence registration permit—or hukou—that distinguished rural from urban households. The move was long overdue. The hukou system...
View ArticleChina’s Jobs Picture Not As Rosy As It Looks – China Real Time Report – WSJ
China’s Premier, Li Keqiang, has said repeatedly how happy he is with the strength of the country’s job market, despite a slowing economy. That’s the main reason he sees little need to ease policy...
View ArticleChina’s Aging Migrant Workers – Businessweek
China’s migrant worker population is getting bigger and older and includes more families living together, a government report released today shows. With 245 million migrant workers as of the end of...
View Article1.39 million Chinese receive legal assistance – Xinhua | English.news.cn
The Chinese government provided free legal aid services for nearly 1.39 million people in 2014 to help them safeguard their rights, the Economic Daily reported on Monday. More than one-third of them...
View Article13 Million Guangdong Migrants Could Gain Permanent Residence By 2020 – China...
Faced with a persistent influx of rural workers, China’s most populous province plans to allow more migrant residents to settle permanently in its cities, in its latest effort to ease decades-old curbs...
View ArticleShifting barriers | The Economist
THE pillars of social control are flaking at the edges. First came the relaxation in October of draconian family-planning restrictions. Now it is the turn of the household-registration, or hukou,...
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