About 600,000 migrant workers in Guangdong province are expected to travel home by motorbike for Spring Festival in order to beat the travel rush, sources with the Sinopec Guangdong Oil Products Company said on Thursday.
For Su Qiulan, a 28-year-old media organization employee in Nanning, going back to live in her hometown is not an option.
Urbanization in China should adopt a more people-oriented approach with greater efforts to guarantee equal access to public services.
China's new approach to urbanization has made the year 2013 a turning point, especially for the 260 million migrant workers who await the benefits of the change.
A survey conducted by Renmin University of China showed that the top three concerns of the Chinese are housing, medical care and commodity prices.
The country's rural reform has accelerated, with more detailed and far-reaching plans expected to be rolled out this week.
Experts say "human-centered" urbanization may help bring a breath of fresh air to the smog-smothered nation.
After four years working in a city, Yin Tao, 27, in casual clothes with framed glasses, looks just like an average Chinese urbanite.
Less than 24 percent of migrant workers in eight urban areas are covered by public health insurance in the cities in which they work, according to a recent study.
A growing number of Indonesians have come to study in China because of the soaring demand for bilingual and high-tech talents in their country.
Many homeless at the railway station come from broken families and have not been covered by any social security programs.
China's railway will carry more than 10 million people on the peak day during the coming National Day Holiday, said the China Railway Corporation.
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