Beijing prioritizes migrants' wages

China plans to root out the issue of employers who intentionally delay paying wages to migrant workers, an official of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said on Wednesday.

"The migrant workers and their families depend solely on their hard-earned money, so they become very desperate when they aren't paid on time and in full," Wang Cheng, director of the ministry's labor and social security supervision department, said at a news conference.

"So delaying wages of migrant workers with malicious intent is a serious matter affecting people's livelihood and social stability."