5‰ Chinese emigrant labor force brainworkers (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-03-03 11:46 China sent out 274,000
emigrant workers in 2005. Only 0.5 percent of these workers worked in the fields
of IT, design consultation, education and other brainwork industries, the
Ministry of Commerce's review said today.
"The 2005 China emigrant workforce cooperation review" analyzes the structure
of China's emigrant workforce. The review stated that Asia is still the main
market for China's emigrant workers. Japan, Singapore and South Korea employ 35
percent of these workers and contribute 40 percent of the revenue made by
China's total emigrant workforce.
In 2005, China released certain restrictions of ownership for the companies
wishing to employ these workers, but upgraded other requirements such as the
company's registration time and capital. The new requirements have allowed more
companies to be accepted and prompted more competition. Until the end of 2005,
1,900 companies employed Chinese emigrant workers.
China has built several emigrant labor bases, including Qingzhou (Sichuan
Province) and Jianwei (Sichuan Province), to help facilitate the cooperation
between workers and the companies. Until last October, the bases earned about
US$100 million. Last year, China's emigrant workforce companies signed
4.8-billion-dollars in contracts, 4.25-billion-dollars of which were the
newly-signed.
The review mentioned the emigrant workforce problems as well. For example,
the government hasn't made relative regulations and laws to adjust and manage
the emigrant workforce industry. This is an obstacle for China to widen into a
broader international market.
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