Recently, labor conflicts become the focus of social attention. Why the PRDpeasant worker shortage but workers wages are still difficult to improve? Whylabor conflicts will emerge during this period? How will that affect Chineseeconomy? How far China cheap labor advantage? Our reporter tried to find the answers.

Recently many migrant workers active in online leaks of their wages than those who earn less money wages of ordinary employees, a Dongguan Shijie innovation electronic factory March: base salary 250 yuan, performance of 50 yuan, Saturday allowance 50 yuan, full attendence 30 yuan, base pay 545 yuan, 8 yuan subsidy night night, overtime wages total 303 yuan, work overtime 121 hours. Button to food costs 165 yuan, gas costs 14 yuan,welfare costs 10 yuan, a fine of 25 yuan per month, 29 days, a total of more than 370 hours, not the ordinary staff over the absence of income totaling 642 yuan. "In Dongguan, the high consumption place, this income can live howah?" Netizens commented.

South China Agricultural University School of economics professor Luo Mingzhong expresses to our newspaper reporter, in the Pearl River Delta,manufacturing workers average working hours in 10 hours, workers must rely on overtime to achieve their desired salary. Many business owners think theworkers a month can get 1800 yuan wage is already very high, but did notthink of these workers was made in the basic work overload on. The basic salary of workers is still low.

"PRD shortage is still based on the salary is not high." Luo Mingzhong said.Data shows, although in recent years China sustained and rapid economic development, but the residents income share is falling. From 1993 to 2007,China resident labour income accounted for the proportion of GDP decreased from 49.49% to 39.74%. While the proportion of labor remuneration in primary distribution in 2000 to 2007 8 years fell by 11.7 percentage points. In the past twenty-two years, the proportion of capital return back up into two, which indicates that the laborers' income does not increase with the growth of wealth."Reasonable wage income growth" has become the most urgent public willingness.

Ask the export processing enterprises has not fully recovered

Luo Mingzhong said, there are three major reasons for the apparent near section time labor contradiction. The first is the current price rise, the risingcost of living wage workers, but there was no change.

In addition, the export-oriented processing enterprises affected by the economic crisis, although the situation has improved, but the overallprofitability is still not fully recovered. RMB appreciation pressure increases,order is not stable, directly affect the survival of enterprises.

One in the South China Sea Songgang specialized in food export enterprise boss Liang Hong (a pseudonym) yesterday told reporters, they are foreignproduction a bottle of beverage to earn 0.1 to 0.15 yuan. But the competition is very fierce, only around the company has more than 10 similar enterprises,help each other to keep the prices down, now rising raw materials, enterprisesvery difficult.

There is another important reason is that now the migrant workers and ageneration of migrant workers in the idea also has difference. Luo Mingzhong said, migrant workers work goal generation is single, is to earn money to support their families. But now the workers pay more attention to the individual value realization, pay close attention to the future, which leads to workersendurance decreased, also easy to intensify contradictions. "Some peoplesay today do not immediately leave, we are the production line, the less a person production is very difficult to carry on." Liang Hong said.

Effect of "world factory" is facing challenges

China "world factory" status, will depend in large part on low labor costs.Especially the processing trade is the human cost advantage in the world commodity market to occupy the position of play a decisive role. The current processing trade accounted for about 50% of the total Chinese trade, which plays an important role in Chinese becoming the "world factory", also createdthe name of a huge trade surplus as a China.

But in the international division of labor system, the processing trade in the bottom of the industrial chain, the profit rate is very low. The data suggest that,at present, the processing trade profit in only 5%.

As the exchange rate, labor costs rise as a test Chinese manufacturing. It is reported, Guangdong began in May 1st of this year has raised the minimum wage, which Guangzhou increased by two, the National more than 10provinces to raise the minimum wage standard. And gradually put on theagenda for the enterprise. A Shenzhen foundry company announced a two raise two, Liang Hong's company, the wages of the workers already from last year's 1000 yuan rose to 1500 yuan, if coupled with overtime, 1800 to 2000 yuan a month. "Do not go up in no way, not to enrol a person also does not keep a person." Luo Mingzhong said, from the recent labor conflict events,raising the possibility of future factory wages is greatly enhanced, and will give more humanistic care staff.

The era of cheap labor Chinese may be nearing completion. To increase the human cost, will break the current our country manufacturing industryeconomic model, in Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries,such as the Africa more low labor cost is causing the world industry attention.Many clothing enterprise reflect, some Southeast Asian countries have startedwith their rush orders. "Upgrade traditional manufacturing low wage, low cost,low profit model will." Luo Mingzhong said.

The personage inside course of study expresses, China if enterprises still immersed in enjoying cheap labor advantage, stay in the "Chinese assembly","world factory" low value added