中国2000万农民工失业返乡

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Crisis hits China's migrant workers

More than 20m rural migrant workers in China have lost their jobs and returned to their home villages or towns as a result of the global economic crisis, government figures revealed yesterday.

By the start of the Chinese new year festival on January 25, 15.3 per cent of China's 130m migrant workers had lost their jobs and left coastal manufacturing centres to return home, said officials quoting a survey from the agriculture ministry.

The job losses were a direct result of the global economic crisis and its impact on export-oriented manufacturers, said Chen Xiwen, director of the Office of Central Rural Work Leading Group. He warned that the flood of unemployed migrants would pose challenges to social stability in the countryside.

The figure of 20m unemployed migrants does not include those who have stayed in cities to look for work after being made redundant and is substantially higher than the figure of 12m that Wen Jiabao, premier, gave to the Financial Times in an interview on Sunday.

Speaking on a visit to the UK yesterday, Mr Wen said there had been signs at the end of last year that the Chinese economy might be starting to recover.

However, in a speech at Cambridge University later in the day, he warned that the global economy could face further problems. “The crisis has not yet hit the bottom, and it is hard to predict what other problems there will be down the path,” he said. Governments should avoid any policies that allowed them to “progress at the expense of others”, he added.

Mr Wen's speech was interrupted by a protester who called him a “dictator” and threw a shoe at the stage – an act reminiscent of the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George W. Bush, former US president, at a press conference in Baghdad last year. Police said they had arrested the man

Production in China's manufacturing sector declined for the sixth month in a row in January, according to Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA, which said yesterday that its purchasing managers' index hit 42.2, up marginally from December but well below the no-change mark of 50.

中国政府昨日公布的数据显示，受全球经济危机影响，中国有超过2000万农民工失业并返乡。

政府官员援引农业部的一项调查表示，截至1月25日中国春节开始，在中国1.3亿农民工中，有15.3%失去了工作，并离开了沿海制造业中心返乡。

中国中央农村工作领导小组办公室主任陈锡文表示，失业是全球经济危机及其对出口导向型制造商影响的直接结果。他警告称，大批失业农民工的出现将对农村的社会稳定构成挑战。

2000万失业农民工这一数据，并不包括那些被裁员后留在城市找工作的农民工，这一数据也远远高于中国总理温家宝上周日接受英国《金融时报》采访时透露的1200万。

在昨日访问英国发表讲话时，温家宝表示，去年底，已有迹象显示中国经济可能开始复苏。

然而，在当天随后在剑桥大学(Cambridge University)发表演讲时，温家宝警告称，全球经济可能面临更多问题。他表示：“现在危机尚未见底，由此可能带来的各种严重后果还难以预料。”他补充称，各国政府应避免任何“以邻为壑”的政策。

温家宝的演讲被一位抗议者打断，这位抗议者称温家宝为“独裁者”，并向演讲台扔了一只鞋子，这一举动让人想起去年在巴格达举行的一次记者招待会上，伊拉克的一位记者曾向美国前总统乔治•布什(George W. Bush)扔鞋子。警方表示，他们已逮捕这位抗议者。

总部位于香港的经纪公司里昂证券(CLSA)的数据显示，今年1月，中国制造业产出连续第6个月下滑。该公司昨日表示，中国采购经理人指数(PMI)触及42.2，略高于去年12月，但远远低于50这一无变化界线。

wzf28

温总理的待遇有点高啊，跟小布什并驾齐驱啊。呵呵

txy660

过年回老家，发现当地企业明显开工不足，有的已经停产半年多了。
经济危机的加剧，失业人员在增加。尤其是中小企业。农民工首当其冲。

txy660

新中国成立半个多世纪以来的经济发展，可以说是牺牲了农业、农村、农民的利益，发展了工业和城市。