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China’s army of migrant workers waits for Xi Jinping’s ‘common prosperity’ to touch their lives

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

epa08433464 Migrant workers clean surface of a building in Beijing, China, 20 May 2020. EPA-EFE/WU HONG

epa08409244 Three migrant workers rest at Qianmen commercial street in Beijing, China, 08 May 2020. The nationwide lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic has caused unemployment, contraction of China's economy and tension between China and the US, which could possibly effect trade negotiations between the two nations. EPA-EFE/WU HONG

epa08587244 A migrant worker walks past a mural painting in Shanghai, China, 06 August 2020. China's migrant workers and freshly graduate students are struggling between the COVID-19 pandemic and the US-China trade war. Despite the recovery of China's economy in the second quarter of 2020, millions of migrant workers are facing social instability. Some local governments such as Dongguan in Southern China, well known for its factories, have started a shared worker program to act as a centralised agency to shift workers from inert factories to other factories that need temporary help. EPA-EFE/ALEX PLAVEVSKI

Shoppers and visitors walk along Nanjing Road East in Shanghai, China, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. China contained its latest Covid-19 outbreak just in time for a week-long holiday that started on Oct. 1, avoiding the need for travel curbs during a crucial period of consumer spending and domestic tourism. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

Migrant workers hope the vision of a ‘well-off’ society will finally end the miseries caused by exclusion from the urban social security system.


China wants its factory workers to rival the Germans, but will ‘lying flat’ youth rise to the challenge?

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 8, 2021 shows workers checking rolls of sheet aluminium at a factory in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. - China's industrial output recorded strong growth in April after last year's pandemic-induced slump, official data showed on May 17, 2021, but retail sales picked up less than expected amid uncertainty in the global economy. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

A job seeker (L) interacts with a hiring official of a company during a career fair in Zhengzhou, China's Henan province on July 25, 2020. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) (Photo by WANG ZHAO/AFP CREDIT: AFP

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 16, 2021 workers producing washing machine parts at a factory in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province. - China's factory-gate prices rose at the highest rate in at least 25 years in September, official data showed on October 14, 2021, hit by the rising cost of coal. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

As China focuses on wealth for all, and becoming an advanced manufacturing hub to rival Germany, training enough skilled workers is the challenge.


China’s path to common prosperity puts pressure on private enterprise

Where the tech giants led, other entrepreneurs are following with lavish donations to charitable causes to meet the national goal.


President Xi Jinping has declared that the time has come to advance the goal of “common prosperity” and give all citizens the opportunity to be wealthy. This series looks at inequality caused by China’s rapid economic development, and how the country is now trying to bridge the gap.


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Xi Jinping’s poverty alleviation campaign

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China’s push for ‘common prosperity’

President Xi Jinping has declared that the time has come to advance the goal of “common prosperity” and give all citizens the opportunity to be wealthy. This series looks at inequality caused by China’s rapid economic development, and how the country is now trying to bridge the gap.

Migrant workers in China waiting for Xi’s ‘well-off’ society to end their misery

Migrant workers hope the vision of a ‘well-off’ society will finally end the miseries caused by exclusion from the urban social security system.

How will China rival Germany when skilled youth just want to lie flat?

As China focuses on wealth for all, and becoming an advanced manufacturing hub to rival Germany, training enough skilled workers is the challenge.

Xi asked China’s rich to ‘give back to society’. It’s happening

Where the tech giants led, other entrepreneurs are following with lavish donations to charitable causes to meet the national goal.