推动中国在10多年前成为“世界工厂”的是农民工。他们为世界各地的商场生产消费者产品,而他们的工资比18世纪英国工业革命开始时英国工人的工资还要低。如今,这个估计人数达2.2亿的农民工群体本身正在成为一个有实力的消费者群体。这一根本转变势必推动中国的下一场重大经济演变。英国《金融时报》旗下调研机构《中 Promote China to become “world factory” more than 10 years ago is migrant workers. They produce consumer products for markets around the world, and their wages are lower than those of British workers at the start of the British Industrial Revolution of the 18th century. Today, this estimated population of 220 million migrant workers themselves are becoming a powerful consumer group. This fundamental shift is bound to push China’s next major economic evolution. British “Financial Times” research institutions