Category: employment
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Illiteracy
Education is fundamentally a choice. Students choose to do their homework or not, to attend class or not, to take challenging or easy classes, etc. China released statistics today that show that more people are choosing to not go to school. Illiteracy rates in China before the PRC were always high. The character based language…
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Chinese Labor Trends – Redux
The ever-helpful Chinadigitaltimes.net noted an article in the NYT on the problem of the aging Chinese labor force. The article was by Howard French, and the piece seemed very familiar to me. In fact, hadn’t French already written an article on this topic? And, hadn’t I already blogged about it? In point of fact, yes,…