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

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

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

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

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

Rallies support protesters detained in country’s biggest mass arrest of workers since 2015

Without Baishizhou’s cheaper housing, Shenzhen’s tech companies could not have thrived

Property no longer expected to buoy significant demand for commodities and labour

FTCR Labour Index helped by service sector and wages but underlying demand softer

China needs more babies; tackling workplace discrimination against women would help

Transformation of rural backwater into the new Shenzhen is still some way off

More content is being uploaded than a human workforce could possibly watch

FTCR China Labour Index seasonally weak as construction drags and wage growth stalls

Temporary respite from choking pollution falls victim to industrial stimulus

Official figures show resident numbers in Beijing fell by 22,000 people in 2017 

FTCR China Labour Index sees best January in three years but hirers say wages down

Pan Yabei is always on the move — as a delivery worker and as an evicted migrant

Beijing wants to encourage two-child families, which has fuelled job discrimination

Move to cut capital’s population triggers middle-class insecurity

Apple supplier Foxconn among those turning to students as flexible workers dwindle

Interns say they were ‘forced’ to work at Foxconn plant in China in order to graduate