Some 300 million Chinese workers are facing a more precarious future amid the country’s economic transition.
Construction workers take a break at a site in Sanlitun, Beijing, China. Credit: Ming Xia via Flickr
Every year, millions of Chinese workers leave their homes in the countryside to work in cities and factories in more developed parts of China. The sweat of their brows has fueled the country’s economic rise in the last few decades, but now they are growing older and facing a more precarious future.
There are nearly 300 million migrant workers in China — labourers with rural hukou under the household registration system who work outside the agricultural sector — according to offici
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