No right to work
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3178704
Sep 9th 2004 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
China's official figures hugely understate a growing problem. But
there is some good news as well
"WE ARE a socialist country," China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, said
to loud applause last weekend at a conference on the re-employment of
laid-off workers. "If we don't solve the employment problem, the lives
of the masses will not improve." Mr Wen has declared unemployment to
be a top priority for his administration. Most people agree that urban
unemployment is growing, but a statistical quagmire of the
government's making renders it difficult to assess how bad the problem
really is.
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