Socializing around food at mealtimes is important for Chinese people. And the people who started a campaign asking urbanites to treat migrant workers to dinner understand that very well.

Three scholars in cooperation with Sohu Weibo, one of China's major micro-blogging websites, on May 18 started a charity project called Treat Migrant Workers to Dinner. The campaign aims to organize 10,000 dinner parties in 100 cities nationwide in a year.

Urban Web users and migrant workers who sign up online for the events will have dinner together with the former footing the bill.