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carolynne wheeler http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/daily-mix/article2140158.ece BEIJING— Globe and Mail Blog Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:33AM EDT With growth still hovering around 9 per cent and a trade surplus last month at its highest point in more than two years, China appears to be well-positioned to weather the threat to its export industry from another economic slowdown abroad. But tell that to factory owners in Dongguan, the third-largest city in China’s southern Guangdong province, and a major hub of manufacturing. Reports in two leading Chinese media outlets this week have chronicled closings and relocations of some of Dongguan’s most reliable industries, including shoe manufacturers, toy makers and textile factories.

By Chen Xin (China Daily)Updated: 2010-12-16 08:26 The country's 2008 and 2009 wage growth may have been overestimated, a senior economist with the International Labor Office (ILO) said on Wednesday. China has surpassed many countries in wage increases since the financial crisis caused some countries to experience negative growth, a new ILO wage report said.

“For labor unionists, activists, scholars and advocates who are outside of China -- but deeply interested in what happens inside China -- the process of going beneath the surface of things is very daunting. In the last three decades capitalists have made themselves at home in China and, along with international finance and trade envoys, political representatives and their allies within academia, think tanks, media and public relations, they have burrowed into Chinese government and business elites to powerfully advance their own interests.

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