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Rural-urban migrant workers have a significant presence in China's labor force. [56] By 2006, migrant workers comprised 40% of the total urban labor force. [57] 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.
The word mingong is constructed from the Chinese words "min" (Chinese: 民), short for "nong min" (Chinese: 农民), which means peasant, farmer, or rural resident; and "gong" (Chinese: 工), which means worker. [1] Since these "peasant workers" are not registered, it is unknown exactly how many of these migrant workers exist.
STORY: Chinese migrant worker Sun Wu recently showed Reuters his latest lodging, shared with a fellow migrant worker.A quarantine center housing at least 80 people in disaster relief tents - the ...
Dagongmei (Chinese: 打工妹; lit. 'working little sisters') are Chinese female migrant workers in the cities. This term emerged during the post-Mao Reform Period (1978-) and is still a relevant term in the present day.
The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it sent 116 Chinese migrants from the United States back home in the first “large charter flight” in five years. The flight, which ...
A Chinese migrant who arrived in the US via the ocean route in late 2022 told CNN that her boat almost capsized at sea after departing from Tapachula under the cover of darkness.
The Chinese workers were unfamiliar with local geography, language, and custom. They were cut off by the incoming tide in the bay around 9:30 p.m. The workers were all undocumented immigrants, mainly from the Fujian province of China, and have been described as being untrained and inexperienced. [5]
Sun Zhigang (Chinese: 孙志刚; 1976–2003) was from Huanggang, Hubei Province.He was a graduate of Wuhan University of Science and Technology.After the Chinese New Year of 2003, he left Hubei for the coastal Guangdong Province, an area of south China that depends on migrant labor.