Parental Occupation in Relation to Obesity in Rural-to-Urban Migrant Children in China

摘要

Intensification of reforms and speeding of urbanization, as well as increasing income gap between urban and rural residents in China dramatically influenced rural-urban migration of labor workers. In the last two decades the number rural-to-urban migrant workers increased from 40 million in 1985 (1) to 247 million in 2015 (2). Many rural children and adolescents moved from rural to urban areas with their parents. The number of migrant peasant workers’ children aged less than 14 yr old was estimated at 15 million, and about 530,000 of those children were in Shanghai City in 2012 (3).