English News 2006 10 30 Laborers200

From Radio Free Asia:

A new Web portal that aims to help China’s 150 million migrant workers find jobs, training, legal help and social activities is winning backing from officials anxious about social stability in a breakneck economy.

Hangzhou-based Xiao Kewen, 29, is an up-and-coming entrepreneur whose Web portal, Sinomen (Chinese), has grown from a staff of just two people to more than 50 employees in less than a year.

“There’s a huge niche in the market here that I want to explore: how to train some of the migrant workforce so they can land themselves highly skilled technical jobs with these factories,” he added. Sinomen has found plenty of interest among government officials keen to boost the development of poorer and more rural regions of China. [Full Text]

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