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Will China’s cities really let migrant students sit the national college entrance examination?

The prize for Most Misleading Headline of the Week goes to the China Daily last Friday for its proclamation “Migrant children to sit gaokao in cities.” If true, this would be the answer to millions of migrant workers’ prayers for their children who, have to return “home” to the countryside to take the national college entrance exam. Photo by emop, available at flickr under a creative commons license..

The Observer: Sock City's decline may reveal an unravelling in China's economy

The hosiery business has been good to the entrepreneurs of Datang, who rode out the 2008 crisis and recovered. But now business is slowing again – and experts fear that may presage a hard landing for the whole country

Wuhan factory strike illustrates both the progress and limits to the workers’ movement in China’s inland provinces

A two-day strike involving more than 1,000 workers at a Wuhan automotive components factory ended on Friday 24 August after management increased its pay offer to an extra 200 yuan a month.

The tide turns in Sichuan: Rural labourers find opportunities closer to home

Sichuan, the Chinese province perhaps most synonymous with the export of rural labour, now has more rural labourers employed at home than in other provinces. In the first half this year, there were 10.9 million rural workers from Sichuan employed inside the province,and 10.1 million rural migrants outside the province, according to official statistics.

In these Times: Chinese Labor Activists Get Shut Out, But Won’t Shut Up

The media love to hail the “opening” of China: opening up to "Western culture," opening up to digital communication and maybe even opening up to democracy. But for the most part, the focus is on keeping China open for business, and that sometimes means closing avenues for social progress and activism.

Global Post: In China, college education comes at a price

hether you call them jiu ling hou — the “post-'90s generation” — or millennials, things are not so different for recent college graduates in China and the US. Derided in both countries as spoiled, selfish and entitled, yet struggling to find decent work, they belong to generations whose high expectations for comfort and prosperity have been thwarted by economic trends.

Job market in China tightens once more

The job market in China, particularly in the more economically developed eastern provinces, contracted noticeably in the second quarter of this year. According to the latest labour market survey published by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, China’s eastern region saw the number of job applicants increase by 132,000 in the second quarter, while the number of job vacancies only increased by 5,000 compared with the first quarter.

Economic slowdown in coastal provinces forces migrant workers to go home

Large numbers of small and medium-sized factories in Guangdong and Zhejiang have closed their production lines, leading to a very noticeable migration of workers back to their home towns, especially workers over the age of 45, who are at a disadvantage when they try to find a new job.Photograph by Joey Wan available at flickr.com under a creative commons agreement.

June strikes show collective bargaining gaining traction in China

Nearly half the strikes and worker protests recorded by China Labour Bulletin in June ended up in some form of collective bargaining between management and workers, a sign that both labour and management are increasingly willing to use collective bargaining as a means of resolving labour disputes.Photograph: Strike at Guangzhou Citizen plant in June this year.

Zhongshan riot reveals long unresolved tensions in Guangdong

A major riot involving hundreds of migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta city of Zhongshan this Monday and Tuesday has reignited long unresolved tensions between the local and migrant populations in Guangdong.

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