Workers are becoming scarce in China’s Pearl River Delta.
There are many reasons for the worker shortage in once-booming coastal regions like the Pearl River Delta. Farm-friendly policies are keeping many people on the land, while other migrants are finding jobs closer to home as poor interior provinces become more prosperous.
Infrastructure projects funded by China’s massive economic stimulus package have also attracted workers.
But another key reason is the changing labor force: More than half of China’s working-age population is made up of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s.
Their attitudes and expectations are vastly different from those of their parents.They grew up with greater prosperity in families limited by the one-child policy. They are more used to getting their way.
Examiner.com reports officials have been denying that there is a serious labor shortage.
The issue was raised during the ongoing meetings of the national legislature, the National People’s Congress, in Beijing. A top union official from Guangdong told reporters large companies and those with good working conditions weren’t facing shortages.