Budding dreams

China must pay closer attention to the problems faced by more than 100 million second-generation migrant workers in order to ensure social stability and deepen the trend of urbanization, a research group affiliated to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions urged on Monday.

This call to action is both urgent and timely.

These young workers, although born and brought up in cities, have still been labeled as rural migrant laborers despite the fact that it was their parents who had migrated to cities in search of jobs a generation earlier.