Wage changes of China's migrant workers (6)

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

Liu Zhenggui and his wife Chen Xia from Central China's Anhui province work on a construction site in Shanghai. They specialize in setting up scaffolding for construction. Their daily payment rose from 30 yuan in 2008 to more than 200 yuan in 2012. However, they have heavy debt from building a new house and funding their son's marriage in 2012. (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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