Guangdong top choice for migrant workers 广东成为外来务工人员首选地
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GUANGDONG has topped the list of places to which China’s migrant workers have moved for work, followed by Beijing, Shanghai and Zhejiang.
The four employ nearly 70 percent of China’s 281.7 million migrant workers, according to data analysis by the 360 Internet Security Center.
The company gathered the results by tracking online ticket bookings for trips made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which ended Tuesday. During the period, 2.7 billion trips were made either by train, air, roads or via water transport.
Migrant workers heading home for the long holiday and students making trips for winter vacation are the two big sources of population flow.
Qihoo 360’s Internet security center, a leading Internet data, search and security service provider, found that Guangdong Province, with its strong economy and pleasant weather, is host to 35.2 percent of migrant workers, while Hunan and Hubei provinces were the biggest sources of migrant workers.
The number of Chinese migrant workers topped 281.7 million in 2016, up 1.5 percent year on year.
This year’s Spring Festival travel rush witnessed a record-breaking 357 million train trips in 2017, official data showed yesterday. The figure represents an increase of 10.1 percent from the same period in 2016, according to the China Railway Corp.(Xinhua)
(Editor : Lily A)