Village life was losing its charm for the majority of young migrant workers, a survey showed.
More than half male migrant workers said they were not confident to start a relationship due to low payment, a survey showed.
Collective bargaining can help reduce labor disputes in the world's largest manufacturing nation, said an official with the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Border trade thrives but visa problems, customs rules are hitting small vendors very hard.
Since China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) a decade ago, a large number of international companies across a range of industries have come to the country to cash in on its huge market.
China's "Go West" strategy, launched just before the country's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, has been a milestone in the nation's economic development.
Regular monitoring of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be expanded in Zhejiang province to avoid the sudden flight of business owners and labor disputes in the coming New Year and Spring Festival.
Dozens of Chinese businesses are likely to join about 1,000 global corporations in a pioneering project to have their company names affixed to the end of Internet domain names by 2013, replacing the suffix .com.
China's Producer Price Index (PPI), a main gauge of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 2.7 percent in November year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.
China's Ministry of Commerce and Xinhua News Agency on Thursday jointly selected the country's top 10 news events related to China's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the accession.
China's consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 4.2 percent year-on-year in November, further weakening from 5.5 percent in October.
Retail sales up 17%
Industrial output up 12.4%
Fixed asset investment up 24.5%
Struggling companies are getting more support from the Chinese government to keep and create jobs, a senior labor official said.