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Article: China Focus: Growth of non-state economy helps with transformation of trade unions in China
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- September 15, 2005
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China Focus: Growth of non-state economy helps with transformation
of trade unions in China
HANGZHOU, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- Organizing parties and singing
contests and dispatching tickets to theaters and cinemas. This was
the image of Chinese trade unions in the public mind over past
decades. But now things are changing, especially in the country's
coastal regions, where the non-state economy prospers.
On Thursday, the heads of trade unions across China gathered in
Yiwu City, a famous trading center for small commodities in the
economically developed Zhejiang Province in east China for an
exchange of views on how to safeguard the legitimate rights of
workers.
Chen Youde, head of the ...