Statistics
200 million migrants in China (Xinhua, 2008)
20 million migrant children in China (China CSR, 2007)
Beijing is home to 5 million migrant workers and 500,000 migrant children (Xinhua, 2007; Global Envision, 2007)
360% increase in migrant children population between the ages of 5-14 from 1997-2004 (China News Agency)
Over 65% of teachers have no teaching experience (The China Quarterly, 2004)
Over the past two decades migrants have contributed to at least 16 percent of gross domestic product growth (UNESCO, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Migrants dominate the Chinese labor force in dirty and dangerous trades: 70 percent of construction workers, 68 percent of manufacturing employees, and 80 percent of coal miners are migrant workers. More than 60 percent of staff in the service trade, according to state media, are migrants as well. (CNN, 2008)
