Category Archives: Migrant workers

Harmonious Asian Games means no emergencies

A community in Guangzhou will fine migrants who call the 110 emergency hotline during the Asian Games.

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What happened to the men who built China?

Daily Telegraph’s Malcolm Moore takes a look at China’s first generation of migrant workers transformed China, building its skyscrapers, manning its factories and digging its mines.

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It’s not easy for a migrant worker in the legislature

Window of the South interviews Hu Xiaoyan, an NPC delegate who represents the migrant worker functional constituency.

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Yunnan will NOT abolish ‘hukou’ system

An earlier post on Danwei suggested that Yunnan Province was about to abolish the ‘hukou’ system, which is a relic old Chinese economy based on work units and local registrations that made casual migration almost impossible. While the Chinese economy … Continue reading

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Yunnan to dismantle ‘hukou’ system

GoKunming reports: The Yunnan government has announced that beginning on January 1 of next year, Yunnan province will eliminate the current hukou registration system that essentially binds rural Yunnanese to their officially registered place of residence – often their place … Continue reading

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