labor - Guangdong sees again drop in migrant workers

The number of migrant workers to booming Guangdong province is dropping against, just like last year, the China Daily reports today. Most of the article is writting in a typical propaganda-style, focusing on new government policies that should make it easier for rural workers to go to the cities.
But in the tail it says:

"In Guangdong, things are a little different. The province, one of the country's
economic power houses, is witnessing a reduction of job seekers from outside the
province this year."

More freedom does not mean automatically that more workers will go to cities, when their living conditions at home improve.