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Different dreams of 'post-1990s' migrant workers (7)

People's Daily Online)  09:04, February 22, 2013  

Hong Qixiang recruits employees for his brother’s photo frame manufactory at a job fair in Yiwu, Zhejiang on Feb. 16, 2013. Hong was born in 1992, and studied plane design in a technical school. He now works as a designer at his brother’s factory. (Xinhua/ Han Chuanhao)

Migrant workers born in 1990s is an emerging force supporting the "Made in China" products. Most of post-1990s migrant workers quit school and start working early; they are unwilling to be farmers as the elder generation; they long for staying in a big city and realizing the metropolitan dream.

These young migrant workers are better to accept new knowledge and faster to learn new skills than their predecessors. They wish to work in cities and live the same life as their peers in cities.

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(Editor:WangXin、Wang Jinxue)

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