Tough labor market in Guangdong Province
26/3/2003 16:03
Nearly 70 percent of the companies in Guangdong Province will not
recruit new employees in the next two years, worsening the employment situation
in the province, according to a recent survey by the Guangdong government of 338
enterprises.
The survey was conducted in 13 cities, including Guangzhou,
Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou, and involved 13 industries, including mining,
transportation storage and postal sectors, with the number of state-owned and
private enterprises accounting for 53 percent of the total.
According to
the survey, the number of employees in Guangdong Province will gradually decline
over five years, while the number of retired and laid-off people who are
employed will increase.
The number of employees in five industries
gradually increased from 2000 to 2002, including mining, wholesale & retail,
service, educational & sanitation and social security & welfare sectors.
Staff numbers gradually declined in beverage production, chemical
material & chemical product manufacturing, textile production, architecture
and transportation storage & postal sectors in the past two years. There
were 30,000 employees in the 338 companies from the five industries last year,
down nine percent from the year 2000.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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