China's labor force undergoes growing pains
China's labour force is changing, and its migrant growth is beginning to slow, due to an aging population resulting in a slowing supply of labour. In February, the number of workers leaving rural homes for jobs in cities fell 3.6% from the same month in 2014, the first documented drop in the figure. This is all related to China's aging population, and by 2050, 30% of China's population will be over 60. Zhang Chewei, deputy director of the Center for Human Resource Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, has said that going forward improvements in technology and productivity will help address the country's labour shortages.&nbsp;
(Beijing) – China's large labor force, a key factor in the economy's three decades of rapid growth, is changing, and signs are appearing that its backbone – some 280 million migrant workers – may soon be shrinking.

The country's total number of migrant workers, the people comprising the biggest portion of the labor force, is still growing, but much slower than in the past, Yang Zhiming, deputy minister of human resources and social security, said in February. The number of migrant workers rose 1.9 percent year-on-year in 2014, a sharp decline from the 36 percent growth seen in 2010.