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July 2005

Manufacturing employment in China

Judith Banister

The scale of manufacturing employment in China dwarfs the numbers of manufacturing workers in other countries; China's manufacturing sector has shed surplus workers from inefficient state-owned factories, while increasing employment in the private sector.

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