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How rising wages are changing China.(keeping good workers)(Brief article)
From the textile and toy factories of the south to the corporate headquarters and research labs in Beijing and Shanghai, the No. 1 challenge in China today is finding and keeping good workers. Turnover in some low-tech industries approaches 50 percent, according to the Institute of Contemporary Observation, a Shenzhen labor research group. Guangdong Province has 2.5 million jobs that remain unfilled, while Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shandong provinces also face shortages of qualified workers.
With the gap between wages in China and those elsewhere gradually closing, the pressure to pass price increases on to consumers in the U.S. and other markets will start to build. These factors will eventually force the Chinese to upgrade their entire industrial base to make higher-margin goods. The wage issue has started to affect how companies operate in China: U.S. corporations and their suppliers are starting to rethink where to locate facilities; whether deeper into ...
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