Faces of modern China
This week, The Guardian is running a series of articles and videos giving a ‘portrait’ of modern China. This coincides with the newspaper’s new trial to offer selected Guardian articles in Chinese.
On day one, we see a video of the experiences of one migrant worker forced to return from Shenzhen to her parents’ farm [...]
Child Labourers from Sichuan are “sold like vegetables” in Dongguan
Various media outlets in China including the Southern Metropolitan News, Xinua and Sina (links in Chinese) have been reporting that bonded child labourers have been found being ‘sold like vegetables’ in Shipai, Dongguan. The working conditions into which they were sold were horrific. The reports allege that:
There are up to 750 bonded child workers in [...]
1000 children aged 8-13 years old working in brick kilns in Shanxi
Our China team just sent over this terrible story from the Chinese papers. Be warned its not for the faint hearted…
Following the news stories on the Olympics firm accused of using child labor, the Chinese papers have reported that at least 1000 trafficked children were found working in brick-making factories in Shanxi. [...]
Chinese Workers Paid With Fake Cash
There was a burst of incredulous laughter from one side of the Impactt office this afternoon, as this news piece dropped into our inboxes, signalling a new low for labour standards in China.
The article, posted on ChinaCSR.com, reports that 20 workers at an unnamed jeans-dyeing factory in Guangdong were paid in fake bank notes. [...]