Pool of Migrant Workers Expands Slower than in Past

(Beijing) – China's pool of migrant workers is not growing as rapidly as in the past and they are making more while finding jobs closer to home, an official report says.

The growth of China's number of migrant workers – people who leave rural areas to find jobs in cities – has fallen for five straight years. The country had 274 million migrant workers at the end of last year, about 1.9 percent more than a year earlier, the report by the National Bureau of Statistics says.