摘要
The total number of migrants in China reached 230 million last year, or 17 percent of the country's total population, according to a report issued on August 6 by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, With an average age of 28, 80 percent of migrants are from rural areas and nearly 45 percent of them were born after 1980, the an- nual report said. The average monthly pay for those at or below the age of 35 was just 2513 yuan ($395) in 2011. The figure represented a 29.4-percent increase from that of 2009,