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Cheap foreign labor seeps into Yangtze Delta
By Xu Chi |
November 23, 2010, Tuesday
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FOREIGN nationals from Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries are migrating illegally to the Yangtze River Delta region to fill up factory vacancies as cheap labor.
In the border area in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it takes only a few minutes for a Vietnamese to walk into China from his home village without any official permit as long as they can escape patrol guards, Yangtse Evening News reported today.
Taking a long-distance bus, they can go to any big city they like without trouble.
A textile factory in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, hired 28 illegal immigrants from Vietnam who worked there as cheap labor for almost a year before they were caught and repatriated.
"It never occurred to me that I was working with a group of foreigners," a factory worker surnamed Li told the newspaper. "It's the first time I heard foreigners came to China to work as cheap labor."
Li's factory was fined 20,000 yuan by the city authority for hiring Vietnamese workers illegally. A factory manager, surnamed Yang, told the newspaper that they thought about hiring those Vietnamese because the factory suffered a labor shortage.
Yang said when he was on a business trip to Vietnam, many workers there complained about their low salaries and he invited them to come in his factory by offering higher pays.
According to the report, Vietnamese workers were paid 1,000 yuan per month at Yang's factory, compared with 400 yuan they earned at home doing the same kind of job.
Yang told the newspaper that a Vietnamese labor agency he contacted before was sending about 400 Vietnamese to China illegally every year.
Those laborers used to work in southern Guangdong Province but are now swarming to the country's more-developed Yangtze River Delta region.
A state regulation put into effect in 1986 bans foreigners working as cheap labor and deports them to their countries. Companies that hire foreigners without government permits will be fined between 5,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan.
In the border area in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, it takes only a few minutes for a Vietnamese to walk into China from his home village without any official permit as long as they can escape patrol guards, Yangtse Evening News reported today.
Taking a long-distance bus, they can go to any big city they like without trouble.
A textile factory in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, hired 28 illegal immigrants from Vietnam who worked there as cheap labor for almost a year before they were caught and repatriated.
"It never occurred to me that I was working with a group of foreigners," a factory worker surnamed Li told the newspaper. "It's the first time I heard foreigners came to China to work as cheap labor."
Li's factory was fined 20,000 yuan by the city authority for hiring Vietnamese workers illegally. A factory manager, surnamed Yang, told the newspaper that they thought about hiring those Vietnamese because the factory suffered a labor shortage.
Yang said when he was on a business trip to Vietnam, many workers there complained about their low salaries and he invited them to come in his factory by offering higher pays.
According to the report, Vietnamese workers were paid 1,000 yuan per month at Yang's factory, compared with 400 yuan they earned at home doing the same kind of job.
Yang told the newspaper that a Vietnamese labor agency he contacted before was sending about 400 Vietnamese to China illegally every year.
Those laborers used to work in southern Guangdong Province but are now swarming to the country's more-developed Yangtze River Delta region.
A state regulation put into effect in 1986 bans foreigners working as cheap labor and deports them to their countries. Companies that hire foreigners without government permits will be fined between 5,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan.
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