People-oriented urbanization

According to a recent report published by the National Bureau of Statistics, China had 281.71 million migrant workers by the end of 2016, an increase of 1.5 percent from the previous year's figure.

However, of these migrant workers, 113.37 million were employed in the province where their home is, an increase of 3.4 percent as compared to the figure for 2015. Those workers saw a faster per capita income growth than those who found jobs in other provinces in 2016, the report shows.

The increasing number of migrant workers employed in their home provinces may help solve some of the social problems caused by migrant workers going to work in other provinces and leaving their parents and children behind.