(LI BO)

Migrant workers from the countryside at an electronics factory in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan Province.

The number of young migrant workers totaled 125.28 million in 2013, accounting for 65.5 percent of the rural work force born after 1980, according to a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on May 12.

The report shows that young migrant workers are better educated and more willing to spend money than their parents and their generation. They prefer to work in bigger cities, with 54.9 percent seeking jobs in big and medium-sized cities, compared with 26 percent from the previous generation.