* Including occupations such as housekeepers, cooks, kindergarten teachers, masseurs, cleaners, delivery service personnel, car washers, printing and copying services, etc. ** Share calculated by ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ.
The data have been collected through a survey which covered rural workers from 31 provinces, 1,730 districts and 8,613 villages in 2025.
Migrant laborers are defined as people who 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.
Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.
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Distribution of migrant workers in China 2015-2025, by industry
This statistic shows the distribution of migrant workers in China in 2015 and 2025, by industry. In 2025, around **** percent of all migrant laborers in China had been working in the manufacturing industry.
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