Mean streets: The real labor markets
By Tan Yingzi | China Daily | Updated: 2009-04-09 07:40
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Migrant workers learn to sew under the guidance of a teacher on Feb 5 in the Yongchuan district of Chongqing, which offers 23 classes to help more than 3,000 people to retrain in new skills. Around 50,000 of the district's 261,800 migrant workers stayed after the Spring Festival break this year due to the economic downturn. Chen Shichuan |
It is 8 am on a sunny day in March and the pavements outside the Shapingba Labor Market in downtown Chongqing are starting to get busy, the morning birdsong slowly being replaced with the anxious chatter of jobless migrant workers and local employers.
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