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Men sitting outside a shop on a street known for wedding attire. Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at 120 million (approximately 9% of the population). China is now experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history. An estimated 230 million Chinese (2010), roughly equivalent to two-thirds the population of the U.S., have left the countryside and migrated to the cities in recent years. About 13 million more join them every year—an expected 250 million by 2012, and 300 to perhaps 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
- Copyright
- RANDY OLSON
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- 6000x3988 / 159.7MB
- Keywords
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age, asia, asian ethnicity, bare chest, building exteriors, chinese culture, chinese ethnicity, chinese people, city streets, clothing, color image, concepts, day, dresses, ethnicity, exterior views (of buildings), formal attire, full length, gender, getty, gowns, guangzhou, hanging out, image composition, image setting, image type, mature adult, men, men only, national peoples, number of people, outdoors, people's republic of china, peoples, photography, relaxation, relaxing, roads, shopping, shops, shops and shopping, side view, sitting, street scenes, two people, types of clothing, urban and suburban ways of life, urban scene, ways of life, wedding shopping street
- Contained in galleries
- China's Bling Dynasty_National Geographic Magazine 5/2008
