The data have been collected through a survey which covered rural workers from 31 provinces, 1,730 districts and 8,613 villages.
Migrant laborers are defined as people who are still registered as rural permanent residents, but leave their place of origin for a period longer than six months in a bid to find employment elsewhere. They either stay in their home province or move to another province to find work.
East China includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong, and Hainan. Central China includes Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan. West China includes Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Northeast China includes Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang.
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Regional distribution of migrant laborers in China 2025, by place of origin
This statistic shows the regional distribution of migrant workers in China in 2025, by place of origin. In 2025, around **** percent of migrant workers from East China had left their home village to work in another province.
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