国家统计局2011年3月公布的调查报告显示:截至2009年,全国外出农民工的数量已经达到14533万人。其中,新生代农民工总人数为8487万,占全部外出农民工总数的58.4%,已经成为外出农民工的主体,并且在我国经济、政治、社会的发展中发挥着越来越大的影响。通常我们将外出从业6个月及以上、并且在1980年及之后出生的农村劳动力称为“新生代农民工”。政治参与是民主政治发展的本质要求,也是维系民主政治的基本条件和衡量民主政治的重要尺度。新生代农民工的政治参与是指其在党和政府的领导下,以遵循宪法和法律所规定的民主权利为前提,通过自主理性的方式,直接或者间接影响政府决策和 According to a survey released by the National Bureau of Statistics in March 2011, as of 2009, the number of migrant workers who went overseas has reached 145.33 million. Among them, the total number of migrant workers in the new generation is 84.87 million, accounting for 58.4% of the total migrant workers who go out, which has become the main body of migrant workers who go out and play more and more important influence in the economic, political and social development of our country. Often rural workers who are 6 months and over who have been away from home and were born in 1980 and beyond are called “new generation migrant workers.” Political participation is the essential requirement for the development of democracy and the basic conditions for maintaining democratic politics and the important yardstick for measuring democratic politics. The new generation of migrant workers in the political participation refers to the party and the government under the leadership of the Constitution and the law to follow the democratic rights as the prerequisite, through the way of autonomous reason, directly or indirectly affect the government decision-making and