CHONGQING, CHINA - DECEMBER 9: A migrant worker peddles vegetables in the rain December 9, 2006 in Chongqing Municipality, China. According to state media, a survey by the Ministry of Agriculture shows China's migrant worker population has grown to 114.9 million with an estimated 6.7 million new migrant workers this year. China's vast rural areas have provided cheap labor for the country's industrialization drive since the 1990s with an average annual increase of 4.03 million migrant workers from 1998 to 2005. Getty Images logo Getty Images 36 months ago

CHONGQING, CHINA - DECEMBER 9: A migrant worker peddles vegetables in the rain December 9, 2006 in Chongqing Municipality, China. According to state media, a survey by the Ministry of Agriculture shows China's migrant worker population has grown to 114.9 million with an estimated 6.7 million new migrant workers this year. China's vast rural areas have provided cheap labor for the country's industrialization drive since the 1990s with an average annual increase of 4.03 million migrant workers from 1998 to 2005.

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