Over 30 million young rural migrants working in China's urban
districts have received training provided by Communist youth
leagues across the country.
The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China
said more than 30 million migrant youth have received training
programs at more than 4,000 training schools over the past five
years.
The training programs launched in 2001 cover various fields such
as state policies and laws, culture, vocational skills, production
safety and refined behavior.
Government statistics show that the country's total migrant
population is estimated at 130 million.
China's waves of migrant workers began to spread out from the
countryside in the 1990s when a handful of east coastal cities
started to develop.
Migrants from underdeveloped western China often take jobs as
construction workers, maids, waiters and vegetable hawkers in
cities.
(Xinhua News Agency October 12, 2006)