Firms offer fewer jobs for winter

Level of seasonal employment in Dongguan has fallen substantially from previous years

The demand for seasonal winter workers has dropped this year by more than 50 percent in Dongguan, a major production base in Guangdong province, and one of the reasons may be the increasing use of robots, according to an employment professional.

"A growing number people are now arriving in Dongguan to become temporary workers during the winter vacation, but the number of companies that are seeking temporary workers is down compared with the previous year," said an executive surnamed Xu at a job-search market in Dongguan.