Survey finds age of migrant workers rising

The young become urbanites, the older work longer due to smaller pensions

The average age of the Chinese rural migrant workers who have manned assembly lines at coastal factories or laid bricks on the rims of expanding cities has been climbing, a survey has found.

The average age for 290 million migrant workers in the nation has been approaching the legal retirement age, which is usually 60 for men and 55 for woman, according to the Migrant Workers Monitoring Survey Report 2019, released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

Their average age reached 40.8 last year, the report said, compared with 40.2 in 2018 and 38.6 in 2015.