Wage changes of China's migrant workers (5)

（Chinadaily.com.cn） 17:38, February 04, 2013

Du Xiangfu and his wife work at the same garment factory in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province. They work for 12 hours a day, six days a week. Despite earning about 8,000 yuan a month in 2012, they have decided to look for a job in their hometown of Chengdu city in Southwest China's Sichuan province, as they want to spend more time with their 2-year-old son and family. (Photo/Xinhua)

The upcoming Spring Festival is the family union time for China's tens of millions of migrant workers who leave their hometowns every year to work in the cities to earn more for their families. The country has been pushing for more effort to improve the income of China's grassroots but has much changed over the years? Here, we show several migrant workers and their families next to a graphic to illustrate their income.

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