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Why is the citizenisation of migrant workers just as important as rural development?
Over the 30-plus years of reform and opening up, rapid economic development has fundamentally shattered the stereotyped impressions of rural people. In recent years, both rural and urban areas have been seeking new transformations. In the view of Lu Huilin, associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University, the accumulation and eruption of the "not-us" sentiment among rural groups poses a huge challenge to social development.
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Migrant Workers Fall in Love with the Internet Plus, Embracing a New Digital Life
All our workers now transfer money to me via WeChat and Alipay, and when we need to discuss things we use QQ groups and WeChat groups, and during the Chinese New Year they even send red envelopes in the groups! Jiang Shuiping (screen name) said to the reporter enthusiastically while looking at his phone. Jiang Shuiping is from Nanjing
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Agricultural experts say migrant workers need to be urbanized in an orderly way during the 13th Five-Year Plan period
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is busily discussing and formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan. Among the goals and tasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan previously released by the official WeChat account of People's Daily, accelerating the pace of agricultural modernization is one important task. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, efforts must be focused on coordinating urban and rural development and promoting
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Can rural migrant workers who have moved to the city still go back to the countryside?
Today I will talk about a very cutting-edge issue: whether rural migrant workers who have moved to the city today can still go back to the countryside. Whether rural migrant workers can go back to the countryside must be discussed on two levels. The first level is whether rural migrant workers can settle down in the city. This issue is very important, that is,
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The Eighth National Migrant Worker Work Inspection Carried Out Comprehensively
In order to implement the spirit of the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Improving Services for Migrant Workers" (Guo Fa [2014] No. 40), the State Council Leading Group on Migrant Worker Work organized and carried out the eighth migrant worker work inspection nationwide from mid-November to mid-December.
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As mechanical cotton picking approaches, where is the way out for cotton pickers?
Around National Day, Xinjiang, China's largest cotton-rich production area, welcomed more than 600,000 cotton-picking workers from more than a dozen provinces and regions including Henan, Sichuan, Shandong and Ningxia. As in previous years, 1/6 of the cotton-picking army converging at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains from all directions came from Ningxia. Different from previous years
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Training a large contingent of full-time agricultural workers to solve the problem of no one to take over farming
Author: Bi Xiaozhe Normally, young people are basically nowhere to be seen in the village. Chen Maosheng, a professional grain-farming farmer in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, said with no small worry that he is already 55 years old, and that it has become a common phenomenon for middle-aged and elderly people to farm. For now, at least, someone is still farming the land, but
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How to Do a Good Job in Serving Migrant Workers Under the New Situation
The teleconference on implementing the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Improving Services for Migrant Workers" was held in Beijing. Ma Kai, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Ma Kai pointed out that migrant workers have become the main body of China's industrial workers
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Developing contract farming opens up new income channels for farmers and workers
Last year I earned more than 70,000 yuan from the contracted potatoes and seed corn I grew. This year I am still growing contract crops; I just focus on growing them well and do not worry about sales. All I need to do is follow the technical requirements of the company and plant and manage scientifically to ensure both yield and quality, and this year I aim
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The Citizenization of the New Generation of Migrant Workers Must Be Advanced Through Institutional Development
The new generation of migrant workers refers to rural migrant laborers born in the 1980s and 1990s, who generally regard integration into cities and towns as their final destination, and currently account for about 60% of the total number of migrant workers. The new generation of migrant workers has stepped onto the important stage of the urbanization process and has become the main part of the new industrial working class
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