Article of Gilles Guiheux and Pierre-Paul Zalio, «White-Collar Migrants in Coastal Chinese Cities», in «Rural Migrants. On the Fringe of the City, a Bridge to the Countryside», China Perspectives. The tremendous speed of urbanisation in China over the last 20 years has occurred simultaneously with a structural change in urban labour markets. In most cities, manufacturing has declined while service industries have rapidly developed. In the case of Shanghai, the service industry already accounts for more than half the city’s total GDP. Today, the city government aims at building future prosperity...