免费日韩片_欧美成人精品一区二区男人小说_国产乱码一区二区三区四区_国产精品国产三级国产aⅴ入口_成人看的污污超级黄网站免费_欧美一级在线免费观看_成人午夜免费无码福利片_国产乱人伦偷精品视频色欲_aaa少妇高潮大片免费看_国产精品1234_亚洲精品国产suv一区88_中文字字幕在线中文无码_精品亚洲区_午夜九九九_国产av国片精品jk制服丝袜_色综合亚洲_亚洲成av人片无码bt种子下载_欧美色就色_精品少妇的一区二区三区四区_男人用嘴添女人下身免费视频

National

Regional

Taiwan, HK, Macao

Special Coverage

Focus

Society

Profiles

Financial crisis drives away 600,000 migrants from Guangdong

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-08 20:28

BEIJING - An estimated 600,000 migrant workers have left China's southern Guangdong Province due to unemployment in 2008 after the worldwide financial crisis hit the region, a government official said Thursday.

Guangdong Province Vice Governor Huang Yunlong revealed the statistics at a press conference after the country's top economic planner released a long-term plan to develop the Pearl River Delta.

Guangdong is the forefront of the country's reform and opening policy. Since 1978, the province's annual gross domestic product (GDP) has increased by an average of 13.45 percent, 3.5 percentage points higher than the nation's average. The Pearl River Delta in southern Guangdong is the country's manufacturing and exporting center.

However, the financial crisis has brought Guangdong "the most difficult year after the 1998 Asian financial crisis", Huang said.

"More than 143,000 migrant workers left Guangdong in the first half of 2008. By the end of last October, the number reached 500,000. The Guangdong statistics bureau estimated that a total of 600,000 migrant workers might have left the province last year," he said.

Other major economic indicators in Guangdong, including GDP, importing and exporting, also slowed in 2008. Local fiscal revenue slowed down 9 percentage points over that of 2007.

Yet Huang insisted that Guangdong had a good ground for future development.

In 2008, Guangdong's GDP grew 10.1 percent year-on-year, despite a slowed growth rate by 4.6 percentage points. The GDP per capita increased 8.7 percent.

Foreign trade industry, a driving force of the province's economy, increased by 8.2 percent, of which exporting and importing grew by 5.6 percent and 10.1 percent, respectively. However, the total volume of importing and exporting slowed 12.1 percentage points over 2007.

According to the Guangdong Statistics Bureau, 100,600 companies were established in 2008, while 62,400 had been eliminated. The province now has more than 996,900 registered companies.

Meanwhile, Guangdong has been trying to improve conditions for migrant workers. In 2008, 10.55 million migrant workers joined medical insurance, 13.5 million are included in work injury insurance and 4.58 million joined unemployment insurance programs.

"These figures are all No. 1 in China in treating migrant workers," Huang said.