农民工是指那些户口仍在农村,但已完全脱离或基本脱离传统农业生产经营活动,主要以在城镇各类所有制企业打工或从事其他服务业为生的一类人群。随着市场经济的发展,进城务工的农民工越来越多。据统计,截至2005年5月,进城农民工约为1亿人。这部分人员面临的社会保障问题,越来越成为中国在迈向城市化进程中不容回避的问题之一。 Migrant workers refer to those households still living in rural areas, but have completely separated themselves from or basically departed from the traditional agricultural production and operation activities and mainly used a group of people who work for various types of enterprises in cities and towns or engaged in other service industries. With the development of market economy, more migrant workers go to cities to work. According to statistics, as of May 2005, migrant workers into the city about 100 million people. The social security issues facing some of these people are increasingly becoming one of the unavoidable issues for China in its march toward urbanization.