China News Service, April 30. The National Bureau of Statistics released the "Monitoring Survey Report of Migrant Workers in 2019" on its official website. The report pointed out that the total number of migrant workers in 2019 reached 29.079 million, an increase of 2.41 million or 0.8 %. The average monthly income of migrant workers is 3962 yuan, an increase of 241 yuan or 6.5% over the previous year. The average monthly income of the six major industries where migrant workers are concentrated in employment has increased steadily.
The report shows that the scale of migrant workers continues to expand, and intra-provincial mobility continues to increase. In 2019, the total number of migrant workers reached 290.77 million, an increase of 2.41 million or 0.8% over the previous year. Among them, the number of local migrant workers was 116.52 million, an increase of 820,000 from the previous year, an increase of 0.7%; the number of migrant workers out of the country was 17.425 million, an increase of 1.59 million from the previous year, an increase of 0.9%. Among migrant workers who went out, 135 million migrant workers who lived in cities and towns at the end of the year were basically the same as the previous year.
Among the migrant workers who went out, 99.17 million migrant workers were employed in the province, an increase of 2.45 million or 2.5% over the previous year; the number of migrant workers across the province was 75.08 million, a decrease of 860,000 or 1.1% over the previous year. Employed migrant workers in the province accounted for 56.9% of migrant workers who went out, and their proportion increased by 0.9 percentage points over the previous year. In terms of regions, except that the proportion of employed migrant workers in the province in the northeast region accounted for 3.4% of the previous year ’s decline, the proportion of employed migrant workers in the provinces of the eastern, central and western regions increased by 0.1, 1.4 and 1.2 respectively Percentage points.
The proportion of women and migrant workers with spouses has increased. Among all migrant workers, men accounted for 64.9% and women accounted for 35.1%. The proportion of women increased by 0.3 percentage points from the previous year. Among them, female migrant workers accounted for 30.7%, down 0.1 percentage points from the previous year; female migrant workers accounted for 39.4%, an increase of 0.8 percentage points.
Among all migrant workers, unmarried accounted for 16.7%, spouse accounted for 80.2%, widowed or divorced accounted for 3.1%; spouse accounted for an increase of 0.5 percentage points over the previous year. Among them, migrant workers with spouses accounted for 68.8%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the previous year; local migrant workers with spouses accounted for 91.3%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points.
The proportion of migrant workers over the age of 50 continues to increase. The average age of migrant workers is 40.8 years, an increase of 0.6 years from the previous year. In terms of age structure, the proportion of migrant workers aged 40 and below was 50.6%, a decrease of 1.5 percentage points from the previous year; the proportion of migrant workers aged 50 and above was 24.6%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points from the previous year, accounting for the past five years Than every year. From the point of employment of migrant workers, the average age of local migrant workers is 45.5 years old, of which the proportion of 40 years old and below is 33.9%, and the proportion of over 50 years old is 35.9%; the average age of migrant workers is 36 years old, of which 40 years old The proportion of under and below is 67.8%, and the proportion of people over 50 is 13%.
The proportion of migrant workers with junior college education or above has increased slightly. Among all migrant workers, 1% have not attended school, 15.3% have primary school education, 56% have junior high school education, 16.6% have high school education, and 11.1% have tertiary education. The proportion of migrant workers with college education or above increased by 0.2 percentage points over the previous year. Among migrant workers who went out, college education and above accounted for 14.8%, an increase of 1 percentage point over the previous year; among local migrant workers, college education and above accounted for 7.6%, a decrease of 0.5%.
The report stated that the average monthly income of migrant workers grew steadily. The average monthly income of migrant workers is 3962 yuan, an increase of 241 yuan or 6.5% over the previous year. The average monthly income of the six major industries where migrant workers are concentrated in employment has increased steadily. Among them, the average monthly income of migrant workers engaged in manufacturing industry was 3958 yuan, an increase of 226 yuan or 6.1% over the previous year; the average monthly income of migrant workers engaged in construction industry was 4567 yuan, an increase of 358 yuan or 8.5% over the previous year; engaged in wholesale and retail The average monthly income of migrant workers in the industry is 3472 yuan, an increase of 209 yuan or 6.4% from the previous year; the average monthly income of migrant workers in the transportation, storage and postal industry is 4,667 yuan, an increase of 322 yuan or 7.4% from the previous year; The average monthly income of workers is 3289 yuan, an increase of 141 yuan or 4.5% over the previous year; the average monthly income of migrant workers engaged in residential service repairs and other services is 3337 yuan, an increase of 135 yuan or 4.2% over the previous year.
Education situation of migrant children moving into the city: The enrollment rate of 3-5 year-old migrant children continues to increase; the school attendance rate of children in compulsory education has been further improved; the difficulty of going to school for high school students and the high cost of migrant children are more serious in the eastern regions and large cities Burst.
In addition, migrant workers in cities have a greater sense of belonging to their cities. Among migrant workers in cities, 40% consider themselves to be “locals” in the city they live in, which is an increase of 2 percentage points from the previous year. From the perspective of the adaptability of migrant workers to local life in cities, 80.6% said that they are very adaptable and relatively adaptable to local life, of which 20.8% said they were very adaptable, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from the previous year; only 1.1% said they were not very adaptable and Very uncomfortable. The sense of belonging and identity of migrant workers living in different cities have increased compared to the previous year. But the larger the city scale, the weaker the migrant workers' sense of belonging to the city they are in, and the more difficult it is to adapt to urban life.