Chinanews, Beijing, May 21 – Labor
shortage problem, which used to occur in coastal areas, has now spread to the middle and
western regions in China. In some industrial sectors, there is not only insufficient supply of technicians, even
grassroot workers also fall short of supply. An insider said that as China''s fast growing economy has absorbed the surplus labor, China’s labor market has taken a fundamental change, CCTV international channel reported.
In a recent visit to Guangdong Province, this reporter saw that many factories had posted hiring information, such as “a large number of grassroot workers needed,” “grassroot workers urgently needed,” “we are hiring a large number of female grassroot workers,” etc.
Mr. Wang has been working in a job firm in Shenzhen for ten years now. In the past, what concerned him most was how to find as many orders as possible. But now, he worries about how to find enough people to fill the orders.
According to Mr. Wang, his company’s customers come from 5,000 manufacturing companies in Shenzhen. In the past, due to a surplus labor situation, companies could usually find lots of workers available for use. But now things have changed.
Shenzhen has large numbers of migrant workers in China. In Shenzhen, more than 10 million migrant workers come from other places to find jobs.
Not only in Shenzhen, the labor
shortage problem has also occurred in other economically developed cities, such as Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing, where large numbers of workers are needed. Among all kinds of jobs that meet labor shortage problem, over half do not require high technical skills. These include sewers, waiters or waitresses, salespeople, security guards, storage and transport workers, and printing and dyeing workers.
Information shows that the labor supply and demand situation has changed greatly in the Pearl River Delta Region and the Yangtze River Delta Region. In the past, there might be surplus labor supply, but now such supply might be barely sufficient. In some sectors, there might not be enough workers to meet employers’ demand. The labor market is no longer a buyer’s market.