surplus rural labour

基本解释

To build China into a modern country, we cannot but transfer rural surplus rural labour and take an urbanization road.
要把我国建成现代化国家，不能不通过转移农村剩余劳动力，走“城市化”道路。
New urban systems are also taking shape in the country's smaller cities and towns, due to economic development and the absorption of surplus rural labour.
随着我国城镇经济的发展和吸纳农村剩余劳动力能力的增强，一些中小城镇已开始形成新的城镇体系。
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There are shortages of managers and skilled workers, but it could take at least another decade before China's surplus rural labour is fully absorbed by industry.
目前，中国确实缺少管理人员和高技能工人。但中国工业要完全吸纳过剩的农业劳动力，恐怕至少还需要十年时间。

Such measures could help to narrow wage differences between urban and rural areas (as will a diminishing supply of surplus rural labour).
ECONOMIST: The National People’s Congress
Its leaders need at least 7% annual growth, they reckon, to continue to create enough jobs to absorb surplus rural labour and the workers laid off by state-owned enterprises.
ECONOMIST: China's economy