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Article: China's manufacturing center woos new generation of rural migrants
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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China's manufacturing center woos new generation of rural
migrants
WENZHOU, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- 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 ...