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There Is Marked Increase in the Migrant Labour Force Leaving the Countryside in 2007

At the National Industrialization of Agriculture held in Nanning, Guangxi on the 24 November 2007, the Vice Minister of Agriculture, Wei ChaoAn said in recent years our country’s rural labour force has moved, the quality has increased, it is expected that next year there will be an increase of 11.9 million people, an increase by a rather large increase in comparison with last year. 

It is expected that this year the total number of people in employment in business in towns and villages will reach 1.500 million people, an increase of about 4 million. The collectively average of years spent in compulsory education is 8.4 years, an increase of 0.1 years in comparison with the corresponding period last year. 19.7% of the migrant workforce has been trained, up 1.4 percentage points in comparison with the corresponding period last year, of which 26.2% of the workforce were trained when they were first employed, up 3.8 percentage points on the corresponding period.

Adapted from: "There Is Marked Increase in the Migrant Labour Force Leaving the Countryside in 2007." Xinhua Online, 26th November 2007.

Source: UNIAP China