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Rise of wages for migrant workers a must

As a man who has many relatives in rural areas, I was delighted at the news about the recent shortage of laborers in China's most developed coastal regions - the Yangtze delta and Pearl River delta.

According to the rule of market and the law of value, anything in short supply in a market will gain in value. The labor shortage in the coastal regions will undoubtedly help raise wages of rural migrant workers. This scenario is exactly what is happening there.

The municipal government of Shenzhen, for instance, is planning to raise the minimum wage. Entrepreneurs also showed a willingness to raise pay for their employees who hail from less developed regions in central and western China. Some trade associations in Zhongshan, a city in Guangdong province, are mulling over the possibility of boosting remuneration by 30 percent. Enterprises in the eastern Yangtze delta were considering similar moves much earlier than Zhongshan.

This hasn't only been seen in coastal regions. Labor shortages have also been reported in less developed central and western regions. In my hometown, Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei province, local enterprises have been finding it difficult to find enough workers recently. In a labor fair held the day before yesterday, none of the 30 companies succeeded in employing a migrant worker, though they offered 1,500 vacancies at fairly decent wages.

Although one of the reasons for the shortage is that rural migrant workers tend to stay home for the lunar New Year holidays until the 15th day of the lunar first month, it is an indisputable fact that they are not as worried as they used to be about landing a job in urban areas. There are a number of reasons accounting for this comparatively favorable position.