Migrants struggle with life in cities, says report

China had 245 million migrants at the end of 2013, representing more than one-sixth of the national population.

But many migrants from rural areas struggle to integrate into urban society, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Eighty percent of the migrants came to cities in search of better-paying jobs, said the Report on China's Migrant Population Development 2014, but their access to essential public services lags behind their urban peers.