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<p>Following China’s nominal eradication of absolute poverty, policy attention has turned to common prosperity. With this policy intended to “raise low-incomes and expand middle-incomes”, migrant workers, one quarter of China’s population, deserve to benefit. Responding to a notable omission in the literature, this study explores migrants’ understanding of common prosperity as revealed by focus groups and in-depth interviews. Constructs derived inductively through a structured, multistage coding process are elucidated by reference to the concept of civic agency as the assertion of rights, negotiation of exclusion, and construction of identities. Migrants conceptualize common prosperity as “living a good life”, extending beyond material improvement to encompass social rights, identity, familial belonging, and personal dignity, dimensions of well-being they feel they lack. Individualistic, albeit family-oriented, their aspirations, characterized by dignity, belonging, and hope, remain conditional on equal access to public services but neglect resource redistribution as a means of achieving this.</p>

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“Living a Good Life”: How Migrant Workers Perceive China’s Policy Goal of Common Prosperity

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年8月4日

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  • Lichao Yang,
  • Robert Walker,
  • Bingyi Zhang,
  • Guanli Zhang

摘要

Following China’s nominal eradication of absolute poverty, policy attention has turned to common prosperity. With this policy intended to “raise low-incomes and expand middle-incomes”, migrant workers, one quarter of China’s population, deserve to benefit. Responding to a notable omission in the literature, this study explores migrants’ understanding of common prosperity as revealed by focus groups and in-depth interviews. Constructs derived inductively through a structured, multistage coding process are elucidated by reference to the concept of civic agency as the assertion of rights, negotiation of exclusion, and construction of identities. Migrants conceptualize common prosperity as “living a good life”, extending beyond material improvement to encompass social rights, identity, familial belonging, and personal dignity, dimensions of well-being they feel they lack. Individualistic, albeit family-oriented, their aspirations, characterized by dignity, belonging, and hope, remain conditional on equal access to public services but neglect resource redistribution as a means of achieving this.