70,000 Qingzhen migrant workers earn 3b yuan in 2020

More than 70,000 migrant workers from Qingzhen, a county-level city in Southwest China's Guizhou province earned a combined 3 billion yuan ($450 million) by offering farming, processing, construction, manufacturing, transport and furnishing services, according to the Qingzhen bureau of human resources and social security on Feb 24. 

These results were hard won. In order to facilitate local employment and cultivate workers' comprehensive competitiveness in the new era, the human resource sector in Qingzhen considered the needs of local job seekers and launched widespread vocational training programs, allowing migrant workers to acquire professional skills which could determine whether they would find employment or not. 

In addition, the Qingzhen government also stepped forward, contacting enterprises and human resource sectors from other regions and collecting, classifying and releasing job-related information. Migrant workers have been taught to work in terms of their own specialties and interests. 

Wang Siping, who used to be a migrant worker from Hongfenghu town, has mastered timber preservation processing techniques. After being employed for several years, he went back to the town and started his own business, which now creates jobs for over 50 rural laborers. Each of his workers can earn 350 yuan daily on average.

For migrant workers who cannot travel far to work for reasons like family care responsibilities or their age, the government has encouraged them to grasp local job opportunities. Long Fazhen, for example, is a villager over 60 who chooses to work for a local company which ensures her a 33,000 yuan annual pay.