China may export labour to ease population pressure (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

China may export labour to ease population pressure
10 Jul 2007 09:45:53 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Ben Blanchard

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China may encourage more of its
1.3 billion people to work overseas as a way of easing population
pressure, a senior official said on Tuesday, adding it would not
significantly alter strict family planning rules.

Yu Xuejun, spokesman for the National Population and Family
Planning Commission, told a Web cast on the central government's
Web site (www.gov.cn) that its job was as much about tackling
these pressures as preventing new births.

-snip-

"For example, there are more than 800,000 people from Sichuan
who leave every year to work outside the province. Is this not a
way of cutting population pressure there?" he said of the populous,
landlocked southwestern province.

The country had 20 percent of the global population but accounted
for only less than 1 percent of expatriate labourers, Yu said, adding
Philippine workers were now even beginning to show up in China.
"About a tenth of the population of the Philippines and Mexico work
abroad any one year, which is a big inspiration for us," he said.

-snip-

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[MADem]

1. Hmmm...wonder how many won't come back? NT

[acmavm]

2. Jeeze, I bet this article gave corporate America one big stiffie.

edit: They're all trying to figure out how to get that cheap labor into the country as we sit here.