Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 30, the “Monitoring Survey Report of Migrant Workers in 2019” released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 30th showed that the total number of migrant workers in 2019 reached 290.77 million, an increase of 2.41 million from the previous year. Among them, the number of local migrant workers was 116.52 million, an increase of 820,000 from the previous year; the number of migrant workers was 17.425 million, an increase of 1.59 million from the previous year.
The report shows that the average age of migrant workers is 40.8 years old, an increase of 0.6 years from the previous year. The proportion of migrant workers over the age of 50 is 24.6%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points from the previous year, and the proportion has increased year by year in the past five years.
The report also shows that the average monthly income of migrant workers is 3962 yuan, an increase of 241 yuan over the previous year. In addition, the average living area of migrant workers entering the city was 20.4 square meters, an increase of 0.2 square meters over the previous year.
Regarding the education of migrant children with migrant workers in cities, the report shows that the enrollment rate of children aged 3 to 5 with migrants continues to increase, and the rate of children in school during compulsory education further improve. The difficulty of going to school for high school students and the high cost are more prominent in the eastern regions and big cities.
In addition, the report said that 40% of migrant workers who entered the city considered themselves to be “locals” in the city they lived in, a 2 percentage point increase over the previous year.
(Originally titled “The total number of migrant workers in China reaches 290.777 million in 2019”)