Labor Service Benefits Central, West China

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Labor Service Benefits Central, West China

The people in central and west China who mainly work in economically developed coastal eastern region have boosted prosperity in both the localities and their hometown.

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The people in central and west China who mainly work in economically developed coastal eastern region have boosted prosperity in both the localities and their hometown.

In Hunan, central China, more than 4.8 million people worked outside the province generated 30 billion yuan (about 3.6 billion US dollars in revenue last year. The 5.6 million people from Sichuan Province, southwest China, brought back 40 billion yuan ( about 4.8 billion US dollars and labor service income accounted for 29 percent of the peasants' per capita net income in the province.

The percentage already tops 30 percent in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Gansu and Guizhou provinces, according to statistics.

Central and west China is faced with fragile ecological environment, poor conditions for agriculture production and surplus laborers on restricted land resources. All the factors have left little room for agricultural restructuring efforts for better income. Providing labor services to other areas becomes a major means of employment for the local surplus rural laborers.

Officials in central and west China agree that having their surplus rural labors working in other regions is playing an increasingly important role in promoting local economic development.

Zeng Qingyan, an official in Yongzhou City of Hunan Province, central China, said that laborers worked outside have learned more about how to use the unique resources, broad markets and cheap land at their hometown.

Last year, Yongzhou City attracted over 60 million yuan (about 7.2 million US dollars) of fund and 1,200 technological items through the channel of labor service.

"Our men went out to provide labor service and came back as dab hand at production," said Zeng.

Many areas in central and west China have provided preferential policies on technological service, taxation, and credit to support those working in other places to return home to set businesses.

"We'll treat them the same way as we treat foreign businessmen in terms of preferential policies," said Ye Wenzhi, deputy chief of the labor department of Sichuan Province.

However, experts and officials also urged laborers from central and west China to improve their overall quality and to be more open-minded.

Creative work is also needed to overcome difficulties hindering the organization of labor service and establish a service information system for those engaged in labor service outside their hometown.

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