5â€� Chinese emigrant labor force brainworkers (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-03-03 11:46 »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp 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 »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp emigrant workforce cooperation review" analyzes the structure
of »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp's emigrant workforce. The review stated that Asia is still the main
market for »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp's emigrant workers. Japan, Singapore and South Korea employ 35
percent of these workers and contribute 40 percent of the revenue made by
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp's total emigrant workforce.
In 2005, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp 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.
»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp 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, »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp'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 »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp to widen into a
broader international market.
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