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Study on the Social Insurance of China’s Migrant Workers 　　[a] Professor, Assistant Dean, Director of Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, Beijing Institute of Technology; Head of Industrial Development Human Resource Development Research Center and Executive Director of Young Teachers Association in Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. 　　[b] School of Management Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. 　　*Corresponding author. 　　Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China grant and grant . 　　Received 19 May 2012; accepted 4 August 2012 　　Abstract 　　Migrant workers are one of China’s most important economic assets and support China’s major industries. However, Migrant workers confront health challenges stemming from the nature of their work, and their low income and their mobility. Based on a survey of 1,702 cases of migrant workers and applying SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) to get the general situation of social insurance participation of the samples, an overview of China’s migrant workers is provided in the beginning of the paper. 　　Key words: Health risk; Social insurance; Migrant workers 　　LIU Pingqing, LIU Weizheng, LIANG Xiongjun (2012). Study on the Social Insurance of China’s Migrant Workers. International Business and Management, 5(1), -0. Available from: URL: /index.php/ibm/article/view/j.ibm.1923842820120501.1488 DOI: /10.3968/j.ibm.1923842820120501.1488 　　Since China’s market-oriented economic reforms in the 1980’s, millions of rural laborers, also called ‘migrant workers’, mostly from China’s impoverished central and western provinces, have moved to the more developed eastern and coastal areas. This development has changed China’s urban labor market and profoundly restructured industrial relations. 　　The condition of migrant workers is a popular public issue in many cultures. The United States has its workers from Mexico; Europe has its guest worker