A Study On Education Demand Of The New-generaion Migrant Workers

With the development of our country and its economy, migrant workers are notonly playing an increasing important role in the reform and opening up as well as theconstruction of modernization, but also making a great contribution onindustrialization, urbanization and modernization. New-generation migrant workers,in particular, have become the main part of all migrant workers. According to thesurvey conducted by State Statistics Bureau in2011, the number of the newgeneration of migrant workers aging from16-30is about100million, takingpossession of39%of all migrant workers, thus, they are becoming the new blood ofour society. However, they are haunted by some problems, such as householdregistration issue, although they are working and living in the city, their registeredpermanent residence is in the country. Because of this, added with the problem of loweducation quality, they cannot enjoy the same social welfare and public service astheir urban counterparts, which means, they cannot be integrated into the city life. Torealize their own dreams, find dreaming jobs and live dreaming lives, they have toreceive education to improve their comprehensive quality.It is the educational level that counts a country civilized or not. Giving attentionto new-generation migrant workers is a key part in improving the level of civilization.Meeting the needs of Migrant workers of new generation who serve as the bridgeconnecting rural area and urban area, and providing them with good education is astrategic measure, benefiting not only our social stability and economicaldevelopment, but also improving the quality of the nation, coordinative developmentof urban-rural area, the construction of a well-off society and a harmonious societyand exerting an important significance on the implementation of the spirit of the18thNPC. Therefore, to improve their compressive quality, the needs of new-generationmigrant workers should be known, and some measures should be taken to meet theirneeds.This paper, including four chapters, makes an analysis on the needs of thenew-generation migrant workers. The first chapter explains the reason of this studyand its significance; also, it gives an illustration of the research method, andconcludes some research achievements taken by former scholars. Chapter two tells the basic situation of this study, such as occupation scatter, marital status and educationstatus. Their adaptation to urban life and home bias are also introduced. In chapterthree, Nanchang migrant workers’ needs and the characteristics of the needs arediscussed. At last, chapter four proposes some suggestions and measures to solve theproblems discussed above, the author myself also gives some ideas from three aspects,namely, individual, government and society.China has a huge amount of agricultural population. Under the acceleratedupdating of modernization, an increasing number of farmers have taken part in thegroup of migrant workers. When they grow older, they will return to the rural area,thus, in the long run, there will be loads of migrant workers go into the city and returnto the country. We can not solve the problems of migrant workers overnight, and wecannot depend on one person to settle these problems. All of these need the support ofthe government and the participation of all social sectors, starting from the overallconstruction of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics; we shouldfully understand the task is important and urgent; it will take a long time to solve theeducational issue of new-generation migrant workers radically and fundamentally.