wages

seeingredinchina.wordpress.com — One of the first questions I get when I start chatting with a stranger is about my salary, I think it’s more out of a curiosity of American life, than actually caring about how rich or poor I am. Through these exchanges the last few years I’ve managed to get a pretty good picture of how wages vary throughout China.

247wallst.com — China’s Premier Wen Jiabao says that workers should be treated better. Jiabao’s comments come in light of a series of strikes at Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) plants and supplier facilities. He should be careful that his wish may come true. The central government is faced with two conflicting problems which means that it is not likely to solve either one of them.

www.chinahush.com — These days, a post titled “A college graduate drifter’s confession letter to his peasant worker father” on MOP triggered heated discussions. Poster named “I am a little cat” (我是小猫猫一个) just graduated from college almost for a year. His monthly salary is one thousand yuan (=150 USD) which is less than his peasant worker father’s, so he had been lying to his family about his life…