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BEIJING - Migrant workers living in China's cities will enjoy the same public services as those provided to city dwellers by the end of 2020, a senior civil affairs official said Tuesday.

BEIJING -- China's rural migrant workers, a major force behind the country's urbanization, earned 2,049 yuan per calendar month (pcm) on average in 2011, up 21.2 percent from a year earlier, said Yang Zhiming deputy minister of Human Resources and Social Security.

NANNING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- As a young judge in China's underdeveloped southwestern region, Li Ting was surprised to learn about how many rural couples had tried to end their marriages over the past month, just after Chinese New Year festivities had ended.

HANGZHOU, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China will launch a health scheme to cover migrant workers' medical insurance when they seek medical treatment in places other than their hometown, Health Minister Chen Zhu on Monday said at a national conference on digital health programs in the coastal province of Zhejiang.

SHANGQIU, China--Liu Tao knows he will never be rich enough to own one of the luxury apartments in Beijing that he has been paid to decorate for more than a decade, but he's saving hard so that in another 10 years he'll have enough for a home with indoor plumbing.

The Chinese government has relaxed its policy on household registration to allow the country's over 100 million migrant workers to apply for difficult-to-obtain residency registration permits, known as hukous, in small and medium cities.

China has repatriated nine North Koreans who fled their homeland despite pleas by South Korea to treat them as refugees and let them stay, news reports said yesterday.

Friday's newspapers focus on Beijing's announcement on household registration reform. According to the notice issued by the General Office of the State Council, says the People's Daily, rural authorities cannot force people who have migrated to cities to give up their rural land and property.