China’s transformation into the “workshop of the world” just over a decade ago was powered by rural migrant workers earning less than their counterparts at the start of the UK’s industrial revolution in the 18th century as they produced consumer goods for shopping malls worldwide. Now, in a reversal set to drive China’s next big economic evolution, an estimated 220m migrant workers are becoming potent consumers in their own right.
推動中國在10多年前成爲「世界工廠」的是農民工。他們爲世界各地的商場生產消費者產品，而他們的工資比18世紀英國工業革命開始時英國工人的工資還要低。如今，這個估計人數達2.2億的農民工羣體本身正在成爲一個有實力的消費者羣體。這一根本轉變勢必推動中國的下一場重大經濟演變。
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