Include migrant laborers living in Shanghai, perhaps a fairer comparison, and the rate climbs to a bit higher than in New York.

如果要做一个更公平地比较，把上海的外来务工人员囊括进去的话，这个比率也只比纽约高出一点儿。

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Unlike older migrant workers who came to earn money for a few years before returning to their villages, the new generation intends to stay, envisioning a life in the neon-splashed cities.

不像老流动人口的工作者们赚几年钱之后回家，新的流动人口则计划留下，在霓虹灯遍地的城市中规划未来。

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With an average income for new university graduates of about 2, 300 yuan a month - only slightly more than a migrant worker earns.

新毕业大学生的月平均收入大约是2300元，比民工的收入高不了多少。

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Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooing investment, and regulating the labour market to block a new influx of migrant workers seeking passage to Europe.

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China Daily says many businesses in the south and east coast are having difficulties recruiting enough migrant workers after the lunar new year holidays last week.

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One big new player is the Gulf, which has sucked in migrant workers since the oil boom.

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