The income of floating population increases steadily and the proportion of manufacturing industry decreases

Wang Qian, director of the floating population Department of the national health and Family Planning Commission, said Thursday that China's floating population's income has steadily increased, mainly employed in the private sector or engaged in self-employed business, and the proportion of manufacturing industry employment has declined year by year, down 2.2 percentage points from 2011 According to the survey on the income of the floating population carried out by the national health and Family Planning Commission in the first ten days of May 2013, the average wage income of the floating population employed in April 2013 was yuan, an increase of 4.9% year on year Among them, the average wage income of the interviewees in the East, the middle and the west is yuan, yuan and yuan respectively Wang Qian introduced that the floating population is mainly employed in the private sector or engaged in self-employed businesses, and the employment is concentrated in five major industries, including manufacturing From the perspective of the nature of employment enterprises, more than 70% of the floating population are employed in private enterprises or engaged in individual business; from the perspective of employment industry, more than 80% of the floating population are employed in manufacturing, wholesale and retail, accommodation and catering, social services, construction and other industries Manufacturing industry has always been the most important industry to absorb the employment of the floating population, but in recent two years, the proportion of the floating population in the manufacturing industry has declined continuously, down to 35.2% in 2012.