Survey: Workers seek balance with life outside

Chinese workers, sometimes viewed as busy bees, are attaching more importance to balancing employment with life outside the workplace, a recent survey showed.

Average weekly working hours per person decreased from about 50 hours in 2012 to about 45 hours in 2014, according to the biennial China Labor Force Dynamics Survey by the Center for Social Surveys at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.

The center has conducted the surveys since 2012, tracking 23,594 workers aged 15 to 64 nationwide. The results of the 2014 survey were released on Sunday.