Article: CHINA'S MANUFACTURING CENTER WOOS NEW GEN OF RURAL MIGRANTS.

WENZHOU, Sept 2 Asia Pulse - Free meals with fruit, a dormitory with air-conditioning and TV, reward holidays - these enticing job conditions are offered on the vacancy board for migrant workers by a private shoe-making factory in east China's Zhejiang Province.

A surprising labor shortage hit the manufacturing center of Wenzhou in Zhejiang since the second quarter, and many private businesses are savvy enough to optimize work conditions to attract laborers, said Wang Ouxiang, deputy secretary of the Employment Service Center in Wenzhou.

"Factories in the city are thirsty for laborers, but the Dongyi Shoes Co. Ltd. did not have much trouble in recruiting ...

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