China's job market is not optimistic

The work market in China, especially in the more economically developed eastern
provinces, contracted noticeably inside the second quarter in 2010.

According to the latest labor market survey published by the Ministry of Hour or so and Social Security, China's eastern region saw the sheer numbers of job hunters increase by 132, 000 while in the second quarter, whilst the number of job vacancies only increased by 5, 000 weighed against the first quarter. 

The survey indicated that there was clearly still a national over-supply of jobs but that the gap relating to the volume of jobs offered and the number of job seekers was narrowing. From the second quarter there are 6.33 million vacancies in comparison to 6.04 million applicants.

Workers inside eastern coastal provinces continue to lose their jobs because manufacturing sector is experiencing a downturn in orders. A workforce at Zhejiang's Hikvision, one of several world's biggest video surveillance products suppliers, said the purchasing department had already dismissed three or four staff beyond 40 folks total, while several others had been demoted. Reacting, Hikvision said the firm has 8, 000 employees worldwide, and even if there are indeed layoffs, the scale won't impact send out overall operation.

A sales engineer at the Guangzhou-based industrial automation company said orders within the initial two quarters had clearly declined from your same period not too long ago. The low-end electronics market is highly competitive, and sluggish sales had impacted your analysis and Development department as well, he stated. However, he added that top-line growth was likely to raise in the event the company could secure bids for many state-funded projects in the partner of year.

Macro-economic data shows the economy remains to be stuttering. The HSBC China Manufacturing PMI in July dipped below 50 to arrive at 49.3, as the official Chinese PMI authored by China Federation of Logistics and buying was 50.1. The CFLP noted another monthly decline may well accentuate worries about China's economic slowdown. A reading below 50 indicates the manufacturing economy is contracting.

Qu Hongbin, chief economist China and co-head of Asian Economic Research at HSBC, said in a press release on August 1 that China still faces downside pressures persistent with deteriorating external markets, and therefore Beijing is likely to intensify policy easing inside coming months to support growth and employment.