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What are migrant workers? Give an accurate definition!
The term "migrant workers" was first put forward by sociologist Professor Zhang Yulin in 1983. Refers to the agricultural registered permanent residence workers who work in local township enterprises or enter cities and towns. Migrant workers are the product of China's unique urban-rural dual system and a special social group in China's special historical period.

Migrant workers are divided into broad sense and narrow sense: broad sense includes two parts, one part is rural labor force who has been employed in local township enterprises, and the other part is rural labor force who has left home to engage in secondary and tertiary industries; The narrow sense of migrant workers mainly refers to the latter part.

The so-called "migrant workers" actually refer to "workers in agricultural registered permanent residence who are engaged in non-agricultural work in cities". They have no choice but to continue to suffer from the poverty line, live a hard life of "living in the ant colony" and "living in the rat colony", and cannot share the "reform dividend" of social security such as medical care, employment, education and entertainment fairly.

Now the media have some misunderstandings about migrant workers, thinking that migrant workers are engaged in construction. In fact, all wet. Because there are people from all walks of life who come from rural areas to work in cities, and some white-collar workers are also from agricultural registered permanent residence, but those who work in white-collar jobs are all highly educated. Some general managers are also rural, and they are also called "migrant workers" before they settle down; Therefore, the term migrant workers should be abolished.

The title of "migrant workers" should be changed to "frontline workers". What we should pay attention to is not migrant workers, but those workers who are engaged in the front line of production and have the lowest income. They work overtime, do the most tiring work and get the lowest salary. All workers engaged in the front line of production deserve our attention.