Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers
14 years ago

Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers

China Daily  

Economy Govt to fight discrimination against migrant workers Updated: 2011-02-28 10:40 BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday that the government will strive to end discrimination against rural migrant workers in employment, education and training. Many rural migrant workers had no stable work in the cities and their land in hometown was their fundamental guarantee for living, he said. Wen said rural migrant workers who want urban residency could first consider county-level or township-level cities because these cities were open to accept farmers as registered residents. China has 240 million rural people working in cities, and migrant workers account for a significant proportion of the country's industrial labor force and urban construction workers.

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China issues guideline to promote employment for migrant workers
4 months ago

China issues guideline to promote employment for migrant workers

China Daily  

BEIJING -- China will further promote high-quality and sufficient employment for migrant workers and facilitate their urbanization process, according to a guideline published on Friday. China will work to enhance working skills of migrant workers, safeguard their labor rights and interests, and improve the long-term mechanism for controlling arrears of wages, according to the guideline. The country will promote the …

Government acts to help city dwellers secure jobs
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Government acts to help city dwellers secure jobs

China Daily  

The central government has pledged to step up efforts to help the nearly 300 million migrant workers in China secure more stable jobs and better work experience, as the nation ratchets up its broader push to advance "new urbanization". It will see that favorable policies are implemented to support companies in creating and stabilizing jobs for migrant workers, Shang said …

每日新闻播报（May 6）
2 years, 10 months ago

每日新闻播报（May 6）

China Daily  

>China sees 160m domestic tourist trips during May Day holiday '五一'假期国内出游1.6亿人次 Residents camp at a local park in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province on May 2, 2022. China saw a total of 160 million domestic tourist trips during the five-day May Day holiday, down 30.2 percent from last year, according to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Wednesday. 其中，从事制造业农民工月均收入比上年增长10.1%。 …

Steps will lift quality of rural education
3 years, 2 months ago

Steps will lift quality of rural education

China Daily  

Zhu Senlin teaches a lesson at Longxi primary school in Xianxia township of Yudu county, East China's Jiangxi province, Aug 31, 2021. Li calls for also ensuring equal access for migrant workers' children in cities China will roll out a host of measures to attract more high-caliber professionals to teach in rural areas and improve education quality, a State Council …

China works to boost employment for migrant workers
4 years, 7 months ago

China works to boost employment for migrant workers

China Daily  

China is taking multipronged measures to enable its vast number of migrant workers to find jobs as the country coordinates regular COVID-19 prevention and control with efforts related to economic and social development. According to a recent guideline jointly issued by 15 government departments, including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Development and Reform Commission, …

China to help poor migrant workers secure jobs
4 years, 9 months ago

China to help poor migrant workers secure jobs

China Daily  

China will ramp up efforts to help impoverished migrant workers find or secure jobs. The move aims to ensure the migrant labor force remains stable or improves this year, according to a circular, jointly issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development. …

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work
4 years, 9 months ago

‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work

LA Times  

The villager looked at the photograph of his dead grandmother. China is facing “challenges like never before,” said Premier Li Keqiang as he read the party’s pared-down economic goals. “And if he wasn’t successful, everyone would call him a fool.” Chen’s wife, an out-of-work kindergarten teacher, sat at home monitoring their fourth-grade son’s online lessons every day. “I don’t want …

Legal rights for laborers strengthened
4 years, 11 months ago

Legal rights for laborers strengthened

China Daily  

Two civil servants help a man apply for an e-permit for work at a company in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province on Feb 22, 2020. Legal professionals welcomed a guideline clarifying that Chinese courts will not support employers if they fire employees for epidemic-related reasons, hailing it as a move to effectively protect workers' rights. "The legal document …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent
5 years, 2 months ago

每日一词∣劳动力和人才社会性流动 social mobility of labor force and talent

China Daily  

中共中央办公厅、国务院办公厅印发了《关于促进劳动力和人才社会性流动体制机制改革的意见》。 The General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council has jointly issued a guideline to step up reform to improve social mobility of labor force and talent. Conditions for residential settlement will be relaxed for large cities with a residential population of three million to five million in urban …

People-oriented urbanization
7 years, 10 months ago

People-oriented urbanization

China Daily  

Models of residential buildings are seen at a sales center in Zhengzhou, Henan province, September 23, 2016. According to a recent report published by the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 281.71 million migrant workers by the end of 2016, an increase of 1.5 percent from the previous year's figure. Whether migrant workers choose to stay or leave their home …

Inspection teams dispatched to check on migrant workers' wages
8 years, 1 month ago

Inspection teams dispatched to check on migrant workers' wages

China Daily  

Premier Li Keqiang asks locals if any migrant workers did not get their pay on Jan 23 during a visit to Ludian county in Southwest China's Yunnan province. The State Council has sent teams to inspect why some migrant workers are experiencing delays in wage payment, according to a news release on Monday night. The government should put forward a …

Governments must protect workers' rights
8 years, 9 months ago

Governments must protect workers' rights

China Daily  

Female coal miners work at the Huaibei mine, East China's Anhui province, March 24, 2016. A mining company in Langao county, Shaanxi province, Northwest China, which hadn't paid the wages of its 180 workers for months, took several representatives of the workers to court when the workers demanded the pay they were owed. Beijing Times commented on Thursday: Usually when …

No justification for discrimination toward children of migrant workers
8 years, 9 months ago

No justification for discrimination toward children of migrant workers

China Daily  

Children from Matou town, Tancheng county, play soccer at a Soccer Amusement Park in Linyi, East China's Shandong province, on April 29, 2016. Lixia district of ji'nan city, capital of East China's Shandong province, has reportedly passed a new regulation that requires migrant workers to show a college diploma or their children will be prohibited from going to local primary …

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities
8 years, 11 months ago

China to help more rural migrants settle in cities

China Daily  

BEIJING - China will ease household relocation policies in 2016 to help more migrants settle in cities, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission said Tuesday. To achieve the urbanization goal, around 100 million migrants need be granted with urban household registration, said Xu Lin, an official with the NDRC, at a press conference. Currently about 39.9 percent …

China economy: Workers of the ‘world’s factory’ protest against wage cuts and layoffs
9 years ago

China economy: Workers of the ‘world’s factory’ protest against wage cuts and layoffs

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “To me, the company was like a big family, …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official
9 years, 3 months ago

100 million farmers to be urbanites: official

China Daily  

BEIJING - China plans to turn 100 million farmers into registered urban residents with the hope that this will encourage them to buy city apartments and help alleviate the country's massive housing glut, an official said on Tuesday. The plan will be implemented starting next year, said Xu Shaoshi, head of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top …

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth
10 years, 7 months ago

China eyes higher labor quality to spur growth

China Daily  

BEIJING - Government's decision to provide more vocational trainings to migrant workers will not only increase their incomes, but also nurture a high quality work force that is vital to China's economic upgrading, analysts said. A State Council executive meeting held on Wednesday said services for migrant workers will be improved, including more training courses covering job skills. Yang Zhiming, …

Substantial incentives for farming are needed
11 years, 2 months ago

Substantial incentives for farming are needed

China Daily  

After decades since the great rural-to-urban migration began in the 1980s, the children of those first migrants are choosing to remain in the cities where they were born and raised. Even though the Chinese government recently announced that crop production has increased over the past 10 years, top leaders still see food security as a major issue, with the recent …

China’s great migration from ‘Hukou Hell’
12 years, 1 month ago

China’s great migration from ‘Hukou Hell’

CNN  

Are you celebrating the Lunar New Year? Story highlights Household registration system "Hukou" behind China's mass migration System divides the population into rural and urban residents Citizens can only access social services where they are registered Migrant workers have restricted access to education, welfare, medical and housing benefits At this very moment, in a major Chinese city, a worker is …

Officials illegally sell farmers' land
14 years, 4 months ago

Officials illegally sell farmers' land

China Daily  

Officials illegally sell farmers' land Updated: 2010-11-04 11:25 进入英语学习论坛下载音频 去听写专区一展身手 In the urbanization under way now in China, some local government officials have broken the law by taking over farmland from farmers and selling it, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Chen Xiwen, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said some local governments removed farmers from …

Incomplete urbanization roadmap
14 years, 7 months ago

Incomplete urbanization roadmap

China Daily  

Opinion Incomplete urbanization roadmap Updated: 2010-08-02 14:15 There is definite consensus that urbanization will fuel China's fast economic growth in coming years. A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has revealed that China's urban population touched 620 million last year, accounting for 46 percent of the country's total. Given that Chinese farmers on average earn just one-third of …

Incomplete urbanization roadmap
14 years, 7 months ago

Incomplete urbanization roadmap

China Daily  

2010-08-02 14:15 There is definite consensus that urbanization will fuel China's fast economic growth in coming years. However, if Chinese policymakers really want urbanization to become the principal growth engine, they must do more to enrich and empower those farmers who have emigrated to cities in search of better prospects. A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has …

Incomplete urbanization roadmap
14 years, 7 months ago

Incomplete urbanization roadmap

China Daily  

2010-08-02 14:15 There is definite consensus that urbanization will fuel China's fast economic growth in coming years. However, if Chinese policymakers really want urbanization to become the principal growth engine, they must do more to enrich and empower those farmers who have emigrated to cities in search of better prospects. A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has …

Incomplete urbanization roadmap
14 years, 7 months ago

Incomplete urbanization roadmap

China Daily  

Opinion Incomplete urbanization roadmap Updated: 2010-08-02 14:15 There is definite consensus that urbanization will fuel China's fast economic growth in coming years. A report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has revealed that China's urban population touched 620 million last year, accounting for 46 percent of the country's total. Given that Chinese farmers on average earn just one-third of …

Survey says 20 million migrants lost jobs
16 years, 1 month ago

Survey says 20 million migrants lost jobs

China Daily  

进入英语学习论坛下载音频 A government survey revealed that 20 million migrant workers recently lost their jobs, posing the risk of social instability, a senior official said yesterday. "Therefore, about 25 million rural migrant workers will face huge pressure finding jobs this year," Chen said. According to the circular issued on Sunday by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance …

Protect pay for migrants
18 years, 1 month ago

Protect pay for migrants

China Daily  

Updated: 2007-02-05 07:01 The government should further improve the rules and regulations protecting migrant workers, says a commentary in Dazhong Daily. After the central government issued several files on protecting the rights of migrant workers, many provinces asked migrant worker' employers to hand over some money as a guarantee for these workers' salaries. However, the public funds come from taxpayers …

Jobless urbanites to hit 10m by 2010
18 years, 4 months ago

Jobless urbanites to hit 10m by 2010

China Daily  

Updated: 2006-11-10 06:40 About 10 million urban residents will have difficulty finding jobs by 2010 due to pressure from the growing labour force, according to a new report. In a 2006-10 development outline published late Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security said China, as the world's most populous country, will continue to be troubled by unemployment in future …

我国民工数量逾1亿 月收入不到1000
18 years, 5 months ago

我国民工数量逾1亿 月收入不到1000

China Daily  

A migrant worker at a railway station. Migrant laborers in Chinese cities earn an average of 966 yuan per month, much more than the average farmer, but still very low compared to urban residents. The per capita monthly income for half of the migrant laborers is less than 800 yuan, with 19.67 percent below 500 yuan, according to a latest …

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