The Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan region, which has always been regarded as the main source of cheap labor, is not optimistic for a large number of people going out for employment this year.
With the end of the first month of the lunar calendar, the return of employment expected by the Chinese government has not come as scheduled. A large number of migrant workers and white-collar workers who are looking for jobs have become surplus labor. An official in Hunan revealed that there were at least seven fatal serial murders in the country in the past week. The main reason is that the employment situation is severe and the people at the bottom are in a state of collapse. For example, a local county recruited 10 teachers, and nearly 3,000 people signed up. There are no official rescue measures, and the data is suspected to be falsified. The current population of landless farmers in China is estimated to be well over 100 million.
An official surnamed Liu in Taojiang, Hunan told this station that from last Monday to this Monday (13th to 20th), there were at least 7 serial murders in China that were suspected to have killed at least 12 people. The reason is because in the past three years, most of the lower-level people have suffered too much. Even a few thousand dollars can cause them to collapse instantly, and eventually lead to a bloody murder of the lower-level people.
She revealed that as a person in the system, everyone knows the reasons for these tragedies, but even within the system, these cases are never reported. As for where she lives, there are fewer job opportunities at present. The county recruited 10 teachers, and more than 2,800 people signed up.
Section Chief Liu said: We recruited 10 teachers in the second half of last year, and more than 2,800 people signed up. Our main pillar industries in Taojiang are the betel nut factory and several handbag factories. The wages in the betel nut factory are a little higher, like two to three thousand, and overtime is required, at least 12 hours.
State-owned enterprises and public institutions are also hard to find a job
Facing the same chill, there are also college students who have graduated in recent years. The reporter learned from the internal staff of the state-owned enterprise FAW-Volkswagen that the company has also laid off employees substantially, and in the recent period, it has laid off several rounds. Everyone is under a lot of pressure now.
The former Leishenshan worker anti-epidemic volunteers were beaten for unpaid wages, and now they are unemployed and reduced to leeks
What happened to Zhou Pei, a native of Shiyan, Hubei, is the epitome of what happened to the workers. After traveling around, although he survived the epidemic for three years, he was actually unemployed. Although, he claimed to start a business with an Internet e-commerce boss.
He is by no means a lazy and cowardly man. In 2020, when the whole world was talking about the epidemic, he took the initiative to sign up for the construction of Thunder God Mountain. Although after the completion, he did not receive full salary, no medals, was arrested for appealing, and was finally driven out of Hubei by the police.
In the spring of 2022, after Shanghai was closed, he went to the Shanghai Convention and Exhibition Center as an anti-epidemic volunteer and was responsible for cleaning. He confessed that this time it was only for money. But in the end, he didn't get the full compensation, and was beaten by the police when he appealed at the gate of the Shanghai Municipal Government.
Zhou Pei explained his current situation. There are too many people who want to enter the factory this year, but there are too few suitable jobs. Although he has worked in Guangdong for many years, seeing the situation, he can only choose to give up.
Speaking of his current situation, he described it as "the boss does not pay wages, but shares." He denies that he is engaged in pyramid schemes, but onlookers can see that for a person like him who has not even completed middle school education, he just met a suspected liar who drew a cake for him and asked him to buy it himself .
Zhou Pei said: It is not easy to find a job this year. It seems that there are too many people who go to Wuhan to enter the factory, but there are too many people who go, but there are only so many jobs. I am in Hebei this year, Hebei Province, and I am now working on e-commerce, the Internet. We are still at this stage of development. We are a partner system, and we get a small share, you know?
Chen Hongtao, a left-wing media person who has been paying attention to labor issues, believes that the current information from people around him can basically lead to the conclusion that employment is difficult. But there are no accurate statistics. He believes that the government does not care about the livelihood of these low-level people.
Chen Hongtao said: It must be difficult to find. People around must say that the employment situation is relatively tense this year. Not easy to find, it is possible to draw this conclusion.
Official data exclude rural population
The National Bureau of Statistics has employment-related data only for the first 11 months of the year released in December 2022, stating that the average urban surveyed unemployment rate across the country is 5.6%. Said that the surveyed urban unemployment rate in the second quarter of that year was 6.1%.
But this claim has been criticized. As early as 2004, the Theory Edition of the CCP’s official media, People’s Daily, publicly pointed out that the total number of landless peasants in the country is estimated to be about 40 million, and the number is increasing at a rate of more than 2 million per year. In 2020, the official media "China Youth Daily" quoted information, saying that there were 100 million landless farmers. But even during the strict epidemic lockdown period, the Chinese government has no basic statistics, let alone basic unemployment or relief during the epidemic.
Our reporter also made several calls to various departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security regarding this matter, but they failed to get a response.
However, from the official monitoring data on the market prices of 50 important means of production in 9 categories in China's circulation sector in the first half of this month, we can vaguely see evidence of underutilization. Compared with late January in early February 2023, the prices of 12 products rose. 35 were down and 3 were flat.