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Since China's reform and opening up started more than two decades ago, a special social

group has come into being. Mostly coming from the countryside, they are mainly doing lowpaying manual work in the fields of construction, commerce, service and so on. They become

the floating population in big cities, called as migrant workers or peasant workers.

China's floating population has increased from 70 million of 1993 to 140 million of 2003,

exceeding 10 percent of the total population and accounting for about 30 percent of rural

labor force.

At present [2005], the general floating direction is from the countryside to cities, from

underdeveloped regions to developed regions, and from central and western areas to eastern

coastal areas ...

Source: People's Daily Online, July 27, 2005

Based on this 2005 People's Daily Online article, what is one characteristic of China's floating population? [1]

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Document 3a

Since China's reform and opening up started more than two decades ago, a special social

group has come into being. Mostly coming from the countryside, they are mainly doing lowpaying manual work in the fields of construction, commerce, service and so on. They become

the floating population in big cities, called as migrant workers or peasant workers.

China's floating population has increased from 70 million of 1993 to 140 million of 2003,

exceeding 10 percent of the total population and accounting for about 30 percent of rural

labor force.

At present [2005], the general floating direction is from the countryside to cities, from

underdeveloped regions to developed regions, and from central and western areas to eastern

coastal areas ...

Source: People's Daily Online, July 27, 2005

Based on this 2005 People's Daily Online article, what is one characteristic of China's floating population? [1]

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Quinn Cameron · Answer 1

Based on this 2005 People’s Daily Online article, one characteristic of China’s floating population is that it tends to move from the countryside to the seas.