Migrants returning home to start businesses

More migrant workers are returning home to start their own businesses, a top agricultural official said on Friday.

"The trend has just started, but it can become popular across the whole country with proper guidance and encouragement measures," said Han Jun, director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group. "The number of migrant workers returning to their home villages to start their own businesses in China has kept increasing at an annual rate of about 10 percent for the past five years, and rural areas are becoming hot spots for investment."

Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, said more than 7 million people, most of them migrant workers, have chosen to go to rural areas to start their own businesses.