Provincial prodigals: some migrant workers return home as entrepreneurs

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Officials in China's Anhui province have pioneered the spreading effort to draw home migrant workers whose experience and savings help them start new, badly needed businesses. Guanting township saw 10% of its 30,000 people head to the coast to seek their fortunes, and now 400 have returned, starting six enterprises that employ 340 locals. Figures like these outweigh the 6 billion renminbi received in remittances from migrant workers in 1994, and are encouraging the province to experiment with privatizing state factories.

Entrepreneurship

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Irresistible force: migrant workers are part of a solution, not a problem

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More state planners in China are accepting the idea that migrant workers are more of a benefit than a detriment, leading to modest reforms and efforts to present the migrants in a better light. The laborers can reduce social unrest by providing a link between the poor inland provinces and the richer coastal ones, though many regulations that try to restrict them leave them feeling outside society. Their numbers, expected to exceed 110 million by 2000, also strain infrastructure and contribute to other problems.

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Sisters act

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Single migrant working women power much of Shenzhen's annual 20% growth, and at 1.2 million they outnumber the local population of 1 million. Their numbers make them prominent and have enabled them to demand and receive work concessions, but also attract pimps and kidnappers. Despite discrimination and other social class problems, most expect to keep coming back for pay that exceeds what they could earn elsewhere.

Working women, Shenzhen, China

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