There are about 282 million rural migrant workers in China, making up more than one third of the working population of China (DongFang, 2017). Every household in China have to register based on a system that was formally introduced by the Communist government in 1958 (DongFang, 2017). The majority of these jobs are low-paid jobs in manufacturing, construction and service work. On average, they would spend 25.2 days a month working, and 8.7 hours each day. The vast majority would work around 44 hours per week (DongFang, 2017). In November 2009, China Labour Bullentin published an in-dept report on the children of the migrant workers in China, it is a problem that children in China is facing, children being left behind in the countryside while the parents are going to the cities to work (DongFang, 2017). In 2010, a data showed that 61 million children under the age of 18 year old are left behind in the countryside, 3 percent living by themselves or 57 percent living with their grandparents; it had shown that they lacked emotional support and care from the parents (DongFang, 2017). These migrant workers have a high rate of accident and death rate, based on the lax enforcement of work safeties and regulations by the local government officials, not many of these workers are fully aware of the potential hazards in their workplace and hardly received any safety
There are about 282 million rural migrant workers in China, making up more than one third of the working population of China (DongFang, 2017). Every household in China have to register based on a system that was formally introduced by the Communist government in 1958 (DongFang, 2017). The majority of these jobs are low-paid jobs in manufacturing, construction and service work. On average, they would spend 25.2 days a month working, and 8.7 hours each day. The vast majority would work around 44 hours per week (DongFang, 2017). In November 2009, China Labour Bullentin published an in-dept report on the children of the migrant workers in China, it is a problem that children in China is facing, children being left behind in the countryside while the parents are going to the cities to work (DongFang, 2017). In 2010, a data showed that 61 million children under the age of 18 year old are left behind in the countryside, 3 percent living by themselves or 57 percent living with their grandparents; it had shown that they lacked emotional support and care from the parents (DongFang, 2017). These migrant workers have a high rate of accident and death rate, based on the lax enforcement of work safeties and regulations by the local government officials, not many of these workers are fully aware of the potential hazards in their workplace and hardly received any safety