‘This country doesn’t help you. You help yourself’: China’s rural migrants struggle with no work
4 years, 7 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 them to work on the land,” Pan said, trudging through a muddy field in rubber boots and an umbrella hooked onto his shirt. They would become part of China’s land reform and poverty alleviation policies, aimed at making better use of the land and upgrading rural migrants from villages to towns, on their way to becoming city people.

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Government acts to help city dwellers secure jobs
4 months, 1 week 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 …

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants
4 months, 1 week ago

'New urbanization' to benefit migrants

China Daily  

YANG MEINI/FOR CHINA DAILY China has mapped out major steps to further advance its "new urbanization" strategy, offering migrant workers broader access to urban public services, strengthening industrial development in less-urbanized areas and promoting a more shared growth of cities. The 18 percentage-point gap "means there is substantial room for China's urbanization", said Zhang Fei, vice-president of the China Institute …

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can’t retire
9 months, 1 week ago

Migrant workers who helped build modern China have scant or no pensions, and can’t retire

Associated Press  

BEIJING — At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. “But for older migrant workers, there simply are no positions,” said Zhang, who conducted field studies at four labor markets across China late last year. Zhang Quanshou, a village official in Henan province and a delegate to China’s National People’s Congress, said some older migrant …

Relaxing threshold for hukou can help boost cities' economy
1 year, 1 month ago

Relaxing threshold for hukou can help boost cities' economy

China Daily  

The government of Qingdao, Shandong province, recently issued a notice stipulating that those renting a home in its urban areas can now claim hukou, household registration. Through the move the city has set a lower threshold for people to gain local hukou compared with other cities where strict norms, such as educational background, having one's own house and tax records, …

Drive to attract skilled retirees to rural areas
1 year, 4 months ago

Drive to attract skilled retirees to rural areas

China Daily  

Tang Shangjun, 93 years old, offers instruction to a student in his wooden house in Wuhan village, Central China's Hunan province. Population loss has long beset China's less well-off countryside and hindered efforts to vitalize rural regions, experts said. Apart from the agricultural ministry, which in the latest institutional reform in March merged with the National Rural Revitalization Administration, the …

Young Chinese opt out of the rat race and pressures at home to pursue global nomad lifestyle
1 year, 5 months ago

Young Chinese opt out of the rat race and pressures at home to pursue global nomad lifestyle

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Zhang is among a growing …

Job market remains on stable track
1 year, 8 months ago

Job market remains on stable track

China Daily  

Students look for jobs at a career fair for graduates at Southeast University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Sunday. LIU LI/FOR CHINA DAILY Q1 figures show slight drop in surveyed unemployment rate in urban areas China's job market remained on a stable track in the first quarter this year, with the surveyed unemployment rate registering a slight fall, according to …

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’
3 years, 6 months ago

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

LA Times  

Guo Jianlong, at his home in Dali, China, has chosen the “lying flat” lifestyle. Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to “lie flat.” Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a …

A drop in China’s unemployment rate hides a lack of jobs
3 years, 6 months ago

A drop in China’s unemployment rate hides a lack of jobs

Al Jazeera  

While urban jobless rate fell to 5 percent, unemployment for those between the age of 16-24 was more than double that. China’s unemployment rate has steadily dropped from last year’s pandemic peak though a lack of jobs for graduates and a shortage of skilled manufacturing workers point to underlying problems in the labor market. “The phenomenon of fresh graduates struggling …

Nearly 30,000 migrants live a happy life in Dahua
3 years, 6 months ago

Nearly 30,000 migrants live a happy life in Dahua

China Daily  

Qin Qingmei, a migrant in Dahua, now earns a living by making her hometown's special snack, Gongchuan buns, in Dahong town. There are nearly 30,000 poor people in Dahua Yao autonomous county like Qin Qingmei, living a happy life following relocation. Dahua has created migrant workers' "pioneering parks", gourmet food areas and e-commerce areas in urban resettlement sites, and has …

China warns citizens not to go home for Lunar New Year amid new COVID-19 outbreaks
3 years, 11 months ago

China warns citizens not to go home for Lunar New Year amid new COVID-19 outbreaks

ABC  

In recent years, Tong Gong would always go back to her hometown in China's Henan province during the Lunar New Year holiday to reunite with her parents. Key points: China has advised people not to travel during the week-long annual holiday China has advised people not to travel during the week-long annual holiday Most people leave their cities of work …

China works to boost employment for migrant workers
4 years, 5 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, 6 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. …

‘I want to live’: China’s workers struggle amid virus shutdown
4 years, 11 months ago

‘I want to live’: China’s workers struggle amid virus shutdown

Al Jazeera  

Chinese in informal work are struggling to make ends meet as coronavirus empties streets and shuts down businesses. “There is this constant struggle between maximising the effort to contain the outbreak and minimising the economic impact whatever measures we take will have on both the macroeconomy and ordinary people’s lives,” said Shao’an Huang, a professor of economics at China’s Central …

Chinese millennials are rejecting dull factory jobs — and transforming the economy
5 years, 7 months ago

Chinese millennials are rejecting dull factory jobs — and transforming the economy

LA Times  

Life as one of China’s industrial worker ants did not suit Liu Xu: waking up early in factory accommodation, working for 11 hours operating a machine in the tool-making factory, eating all his meals in the factory canteen and going to bed, only to wake up and do it again. Like Liu, a generation of young Chinese is turning its …

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions
6 years ago

Reverse urbanization provides new direction for rural regions

China Daily  

Former migrant workers are returning home and establishing their own businesses. During the 40 days of China's most important festival, hundreds of millions of people, most of them migrant workers, return to their hometowns from the distant cities where they work. After 40 years of reform and opening-up, developed East China is witnessing a large-scale industrial transformation, with labor-intensive industries …

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