Chinanews, Wuxi, November 15 – With more and more farmers working as migrant workers in cities, their children, parents and wives left behind have become new hidden problems affecting social stability of rural areas in China.“There are so many farmers migrating to cities, despite the fact that it might cost them too dearly,” said Chen Yaobang, former Minister of Agriculture.Currently there are 140 million migrant workers in China, most of whom are able-bodied men. Their wives and parents are left behind in the home villages to bear the heavy burden of doing farm work and raising children or grandchildren.Besides, this life also means that most migrant workers have little or no sex life at all, which also poses a threat to social stability.Nowadays, it is one of the top concerns of the Chinese government to relieve the stay-behind women and elders of their pressures, and to create education opportunities to stay-behind children.