James Pomfret, Special Report: How smuggled workers power 'Made in China.' Reuters, Aug 6, 2015. http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USKCN0QB00H20150806
("In China, few foreign work permits are granted for blue-collar jobs, according to factory managers and labor brokers")
Note:
(a) "Two Chinese police officers in uniform, stationed at a small post near the crossing point in the border town of Dongxing, watched impassively as they rode past."
Dongxing 广西壮族自治区防城港市 东兴市
(b) "The rest of the world will begin to feel the effects as China transitions away from its cheap labor-intensive export model, says Jianguang Shen, the chief Asia economist for Mizuho Securities Asia Ltd. who wrote a research report in June on China’s slowing supply of internal migrant workers."
(i) China really runs out of workers!
(ii) Jianguang Shen 沈 建光 (I select traditional Chinese because he works from Hong Kong)
(iii) Mizuho 瑞穂 (but the company name is actually written in hiragana: みずほ)
(c) "In the Pearl River Delta factory town of Dalingshan, a company called Jia Hao produces wooden picture frames for export to the United States and Europe. * * * Jia Hao's factory manager denied the workers were illegal, saying they were ethnic Wa people 佤族, originally from Myanmar's northern Shan state 掸邦 but now living in the Ximeng region of China’s southwestern Yunnan province."
(i) Dalingshan 广东省东莞市 大岭山镇
(ii) Jia Hao 东莞家豪木制品有限公司
(iii) Ximeng 云南省普洱市 西盟佤族自治县普洱市
(d) "Ngoc Duc, 30, said he had come across the border illegally. He said he earned 100 yuan a day in China doing welding work on the fence, compared with about 200,000 dong ($9) a day in Vietnam."