For decades hundreds of millions of rural Chinese have flocked from their home provinces in the interior to make a better living in the factories and construction sites of the country’s more affluent eastern and southern cities.
But with China’s domestic demand weakening and well-paying urban jobs proving harder to come by, recruiters and policymakers worry that many migrant workers are now staying closer to home.
“Since 2023, the number of jobs advertised at our companies has been falling while the number of people looking for work has been steadily rising,” said one member of staff at a state-owned labour agency that recruits workers in Longhui county in the central province of Hunan.
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