Factories concerned about return of migrant workers

SHANGHAI / GUANGZHOU - Companies are having to introduce better pay incentives as increasing number of employees are failing to return to work after Spring Festival.

"We had more than 20 workers but only half of them have come back after the holiday," a worried Cheng Xuepeng, general manager of a wood factory in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, told China Daily on Tuesday.

He is just one of many bosses of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the eastern coastal region waiting for migrant workers to return from holiday and family reunion.