Growth of monthly incomes of migrant laborers in China 2022, by region

The data have been collected through a survey which covered around 238,000 rural workers from 31 provinces, 1,587 districts and 8,480 villages.

Migrant laborers are defined as workers who are still registered as rural permanent residents, but leave their place of origin for a period longer than six months in a bid to find work. They either stay in their home province or leave for another province in order to find employment.

East China includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong, and Hainan. Central China includes Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan. West China includes Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Northeast China includes Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang.