Article - China's Labour Shortage

Analyzing the Labor Shortage in China

Early this year, at a job fair held in Fuzhou, more than 50,000 positions designed to encourage farmers to move to urban areas went unfilled. Of the more than 400 farmers who left their hometown of Qinghai last year to work in Fujian’s Quanzhou City, less than a third stayed. Usually, the two to three months following the Spring Festival are the time when farmer-workers leave their families and start work in cities. But this year, many labor-intensive enterprises in China found themselves in need of workers to start the engine.

 

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