Arbeitslose Chinesische Wanderarbeiter suchen Anstellungen in der Stadt Shenyang, Provinz Liaoning im Nordosten Chinas, 21. Februar 2009. Wie die Financial crunch
Jobless Chinese migrant workers look for employments in Shenyang city, northeast Chinas Liaoning province, 21 February 2009. As the financial crunch evaporates global demand of Chinas toys, shoes and other commodities, a great deal of export-oriented factories closed or cut their outputs, leaving millions of migrant workers jobless and pushing them back home to the central and western countryside. The Chinese government announced earlier this month that as many as 20 million migrant workers nationwide returned to their homes without prospects for future jobs. The future of these migrant workers has now become the focus of the public and the government. To ameliorate the hardship of idled migrants, the central government has announced a series of initiatives that include vocational training, an expansion of rural health care, and crop subsidies to ensure that those who return to the land can make a living despite a slump in agricultural prices. A $585 billion stimulus package introduced in November, much of it weighted toward labor-intensive construction projects, is also expected to absorb some of the newly unemployed.
