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    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      ‘Let it rot’: China’s tech workers struggle to find jobs

      Beijing’s assault on Big Tech has led to mass dismissals as Covid-19 lockdowns batter economic growth

    • Thursday, 29 April, 2021
      Chinese business & finance
      China’s food delivery groups slammed after undercover TV exposé

      Alibaba and Meituan criticised over labour practices after government official poses as driver

    • Friday, 5 February, 2021
      Chinese bosses push staff to work through new year festivities

      Companies offer bonuses in bid to meet booming global demand

    • Sunday, 21 June, 2020
      Chinese society
      China’s migrant workers spurn cherished ‘hukou’

      Reluctance of millions of rural residents to apply for city permit threatens a Beijing goal

    • Friday, 17 April, 2020
      Youth unemployment
      Are you graduating in 2020? We want to hear from you

      Tell us how graduating into a pandemic economy is affecting you personally and professionally

    • Saturday, 1 February, 2020
      News in-depthCoronavirus pandemic
      Coronavirus freezes return of China’s migrant workers

      Measures to contain outbreak interrupt travel and spark job-seeking closer to home

    • Monday, 9 September, 2019
      Apple Inc
      Apple and Foxconn broke Chinese Labour law to build new iPhones

      US tech group and manufacturing partner admit using too many temporary workers

    • Monday, 24 June, 2019
      FT Confidential Research
      Living costs trump trade war for China’s consumers Premium content

      Households say domestic concerns far more worrying than US tariff actions

    • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
      scoutAsia Research
      China’s small bank blow-up darkens economic outlook Premium content

      Latest interbank market squall spells more trouble for private company financing

    • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
      FT Confidential Research
      China turns again to infrastructure to support growth Premium content

      Reliance on old economic driver reflects failed efforts to boost private companies

    • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
      scoutAsia Research
      China’s online banks adapt to state domination Premium content

      New lenders have the tech but lack the capital and bureaucratic support to compete head on

    • Tuesday, 30 April, 2019
      FT Confidential Research
      More Chinese exporters brush off trade dispute Premium content

      Companies have scrambled to counter tariffs but business still slows

    • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
      FT Confidential Research
      China’s consumers again cheer rising house prices Premium content

      For all the rhetoric, state struggles to break economic addiction to bricks and mortar

    • Monday, 1 April, 2019
      scoutAsia Research
      Small factories chasing daylight in Guangdong Premium content

      Worker rights and environment clean-up spell trouble for light manufacturing in Foshan

    • Wednesday, 26 December, 2018
      China factory jobs dry up as trade tensions hit manufacturing

      Workers blame US tariffs and economic slowdown for drop in job opportunities

    • Tuesday, 27 November, 2018
      China
      Noam Chomsky joins academics boycotting China Marxism conferences

      Academics respond to detention of students who supported workers trying to unionise

    • Monday, 26 November, 2018
      FT Confidential Research
      Chinese labour demand cools slightly as costs rise Premium content

      Employers report softer overall demand as rising costs push up FTCR Labour Market Index

    • Monday, 12 November, 2018
      Chinese politics & policy
      China extends crackdown on labour protests as activism spreads

      Involvement of elite students a reminder for some of Tiananmen Square demonstrations

    • Monday, 29 October, 2018
      FT Confidential Research
      China’s construction sector demand jumps Premium content

      FTCR Labour Index at near two-year high as weaker service sector demand offset

    • Sunday, 28 October, 2018
      Technology sector
      Apple investigates illegal student labour at Watch assembly plant

      Interns allegedly worked overtime and night shifts at Quanta factory in Chongqing

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      China steps up social security collection as it cuts corporate taxes

      Authorities seek to fix pension shortfall without overburdening companies’ tax outlay

    • Monday, 10 September, 2018
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      China factories use childcare offer to lure migrant workers

      Critics say higher wages and better housing needed to help ‘left-behind’ children

    • Thursday, 30 August, 2018
      China’s AI push raises fears over widespread job cuts

      Many Chinese manufacturers have reduced up to 40% of workforce as a result of automation

    • Friday, 24 August, 2018
      Manufacturing gives Chinese labour demand a boost Premium content

      FTCR Labour Index shows hiring demand improving for third month as wages increase

    • Sunday, 5 August, 2018
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Crackdown in Xinjiang: Where have all the people gone? 

      US officials fear a mass incarceration is under way in north-west China but Beijing insists nothing is wrong in a region rich in resources but short on freedoms 

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