"After a year of hard work, companies should give their workers a year-end bonus. This is to show employers' concern for their employees. It is part of our cultural tradition."
Chen Ruoxing, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Shaanxi Committee, said in an interview. Two years after the central leadership advocated a simple lifestyle among officials, some enterprises took it as an excuse to cut the year-end bonus for workers, too.