Ningbo, the total foreign population, ranking the province first

Category: Ningbo News
Published: Thursday, 21 June 2012 09:42

Remark by the website; Foreign here refers to Migrant worker, thus including the Chinese national migrant workers. Please consider when reading the article.

Ningbo Daily | Source 2012-6-21 9:20:01
  Ningbo City Population Development Report released yesterday shows: the end of 2011, the city's household population of 576.4 million registered foreign population 429.84 million Taken together, more than 10 million people. The city's total foreign population ranks first in the province, household population reached 74.57:100. In 2001, the proportion was 18.78:100. Every three years temporary population increase of nearly one million. Last year, the city's temporary population growth and growth rates lower than the average of the past decade. To 2015, the city's foreign population will reach 5.4 million.
  Other coastal sub-provincial city of Ningbo are enjoying the native population brought about by the demographic dividend.
  Ningbo household population is slowly aging stage. Although the proportion of working-age population to maintain a high level, but a declining trend. The age of 16 -59 year-old male, 16 years old -54 years old female working-age population amounted to 372.35 million, accounting for 64.30% of the total population, down 0.63 percentage points.
  The foreign population is an important subject of the regional urban labor force. Ningbo transient population age structure tends to be younger type. The transient population in the working-age population accounted for 86.09%. According to the city employment bureau of alien human resources survey, the age structure of 2011 the city's migrant workers mainly in the age of 16 -45 years of age group, accounting for 84.02% of the total number of people.
  Ningbo foreign labor is mainly concentrated in the secondary industry, the number is 202.93 million, 56.12% of the total number of industrial; those who followed in the tertiary sector, the number is 132.29 million, accounting for 36 of the industry, the number of .59%; engaged in primary industry minimum number of 26.36 million, accounting for 7.29% of the industry.
  However, unskilled foreign labor is still the main force. Extent from the cultural point of view, secondary and below education level of staff accounted for 72.63% of the number of high school and college education, accounting for 20.31%, the proportion of college degree or above 7.06%. 2011 foreign labor from the point of view of labor skills, labor skills, accounting for 73.59%, the primary skill of 19.06%, with only 7.35% of the total number of senior skilled. The good news is, last year, skilled labor is a net inflow accounted for 78.81% of the total net inflow of foreign labor.
  However, the foreign population has increased drastically due to population size and distribution changes, the quality of structural change, industrial restructuring in Ningbo, the elements of resource supply, urban management, public services, social development can not be ignored.
  For example, the pressure of public education resources of Ningbo increased sharply. As of September 2011, the children of floating population participate in Ningbo, the number of nine-year compulsory education was 26.50 million, an increase of 1.10 million more than in 2010. Among them, 19.88 million people enrolled in public schools, accounting for 75% of the total number of foreign workers children to school. 2001 foreign migrant children enrollment in Ningbo, only 5.3 million.
  Better educational resources and relaxed entry conditions to attract more foreign migrant children Laiyong school. It is predicted that by the end of the "12", there will be 45 million people in Ningbo to receive compulsory education. This requires a new standardized school 375. The rapid growth in the schooling of migrant children needs to the city's educational planning and the formulation and implementation has brought great uncertainties, but also increased the difficulty of land supply and financial security.
  In addition, the illegal birth of the native population a particularly serious problem. At present, the number of foreign women of childbearing age has reached 172.84 million, 123.47 million married women of childbearing age are more than the household registration of women of childbearing age and domicile, married women of childbearing age.
  The foreign population in the past two years the annual number of births in the city over the household population was born. According to health department statistics, in October 2011 to March 2012, the city's household population was born for 22614 foreign birth number is 27 394 people, including more illegal birth of the native population.
  In addition, the foreign population sex ratio at birth as high as 121.78. It is a serious imbalance is caused by the city important factor in the sex ratio of birth. At present, the city population birth sex ratio ranks second in the province, second only to Quzhou.