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China enterprises battle for migrant workers
Updated:2011-02-16
COASTAL and inland cities are fiercely competing to attract migrant workers as China's labour shortage spreads to less-developed central and western regions.
In south-west China's Chongqing, many firms have set up booths at railway and bus stations to persuade workers to stay home instead of returning to the coast. Tens of millions of migrant laborers travel by train or bus during the Spring Festival break, which ends on Feb 17.
At the city's North Railway Station on Friday, about a dozen workers told China Daily that they will stay in their hometown if they can get similar wages.
Jiang Haitao, 21, who worked at Foxconn Technology Group's Kunshan plant in East China's Jiangsu province last year, said the corporation's Chongqing operation offers a base salary that is only 'slightly less'.
'I'd feel happier working in my hometown,' he said, adding that earning 200 yuan (S$38) more outside 'cannot buy the same happiness'.
Migrant workers in the east earned an average of 5 per cent more than those in western regions in 2009, yet the disparity was 15 per cent five years earlier, show figures from the National Bureau of Statistics.
SOURCE: straitstimes.com
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