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[Xin Meng] China must hike minimum wage
April 29, 2026
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China’s government wants to strengthen domestic consumption, encourage family formation, increase fertility and achieve more balanced growth. But a major barrier is impeding progress on all these fronts: Chinese non-agricultural workers currently work some 2,500 hours per year, and hundreds of millions of blue-collar workers, largely rural-to-urban migrants, work nearly 3,000.
That is nearly 60 hours per week — a schedule that leaves little time for consumption, relationships or family-building.
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