More consideration given to guards for overseas workers

BEIJING - Calls for security guards from China to accompany workers posted in dangerous areas overseas have increased since kidnappings in Sudan and Egypt underscored the danger workers face as Chinese companies expand globally.

The abductions highlight the urgency to ensure the security of Chinese workers overseas, said Han Fangming, deputy director of the foreign affairs committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, on his micro blog.

Han said that there is a need to study how private security contractors in the United States, such as Academi, work and "when the time is right, the government might allow qualified companies" to establish such services.