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### Viewing cable 06GUANGZHOU14846, XIAMEN'S ECONOMIC AND LABOR SITUATION: RISING WAGES

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 GUANGZHOU 014846

    SIPDIS

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/CM, DRL/IL
    DEPARTMENT PASS USTR FOR KARESH, ROSENBERG
    LABOR FOR ILAB HELM, LI ZHAO, SCHOEPFLE
    TREASURY FOR OASIA/INA-DOHNER AND KOEPKE
    USDOC FOR 4420/ITA/MAC/MCQUEEN
    GENEVA FOR CHAMBERLIN
    USPACOM FOR FPA

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: ELAB ECON EINV SOCI EAGR CH
    SUBJECT: XIAMEN'S ECONOMIC AND LABOR SITUATION: RISING WAGES
    TO WOO MUCH-NEEDED WORKERS

    (U)  THIS DOCUMENT IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED.  PLEASE
    PROTECT ACCORDINGLY.  NOT FOR RELEASE OUTSIDE U.S.
    GOVERNMENT CHANNELS.  NOT FOR INTERNET PUBLICATION.

    ¶1. (SBU) Summary.  Xiamen is Fujian's economic powerhouse,
    but like many highly developed coastal cities, it suffers
    from labor shortages in certain sectors.  The manufacturing
    sector remains its principal job provider, but its service
    industry is quickly gaining ground.  Average wages in the
    city grew almost 10% during 2005, with farmers sharing in
    the gains, as their income grew at more than 10%.
    Meanwhile, there is a clear disconnect between Xiamen's idle
    workers and its work vacancies, as the city's unemployment
    rate stands at 3.79%, yet only half of the nearly one
    million jobs offered in Xiamen during 2005 were filled.
    This provides an opportunity for young migrants from
    neighboring rural provinces, who join the foreigners that
    have come to invest in highly visible enterprises in the
    city.  Skilled technical workers remain in short supply, and
    Xiamen is competing with other developed coastal cities to
    attract these workers through higher wages and the
    reputation as one of China's most livable cities.  End
    summary.

    ¶2. (SBU) On April 28, Deputy Director General Wu Xuexiang,
    of Xiamen's Labor and Social Security Bureau, discussed
    economic and labor issues in Xiamen.  Also present at the
    meeting were Cai Donghong, chief of the employment and
    unemployment insurance section, and other officials who did
    not add to the discussion.  According to the official
    statistics for the end of 2005, Xiamen's workforce numbered
    1.395 million, having grown by 190,000 during the year.  The
    city's total population was 2.25 million and its gross
    domestic product (GDP) was RMB 102.955 billion (USD 12.861
    billion).  The city is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and is
    being considered as a possible location for an American
    Presence Post (APP).

    Industrial sector is tops, service sector closing in
    --------------------------------------------- -------

    ¶3. (U) The secondary industry's workforce grew by 77,000 in
    2005, to reach 660,000, or over 47% of the city's total
    workforce.  For its part, the tertiary industry employed
    about 558,000 people, or 40% of the overall workforce,
    having added some 135,000 new jobs during 2005.  Meanwhile,
    the primary industry lost 19,000 jobs in 2005, for a
    workforce of 176,000 at the end of 2005.  In 2005, the
    average contribution to GDP of a secondary-sector worker was
    RMB 86,683 (USD 10,820), while that of a tertiary-sector
    worker was RMB 78,292 (USD 9,774).  Labor-intensive
    agriculture occupied 13% of the city's workforce, yet only
    produced 2% of GDP.

    ¶4. (SBU) Although the secondary sector still employs 102,000
    more employees, the growth rate of the tertiary sector's
    employee roll was more than twice as fast (31.9%, compared
    with 13.2%).  Even allowing for some slowdown, the service
    sector could at least equal the manufacturing sector in
    terms of workers.  However, it will take longer for the
    former to match the latter's contribution to GDP.

    Average wages up almost 10%
    ---------------------------

    ¶5. (U) Total wages paid in 2005 reached RMB 15 billion (USD
    1.87 million), up 27.1% year-on-year.  Xiamen officials
    attribute this growth to a corresponding growth in the size
    of the city's workforce, in addition to rising wage rates.
    Average wages in Xiamen grew 9.92% during 2005 to reach RMB
    22,577 (USD 2,820).  The per capita income of farmers grew

    GUANGZHOU 00014846  002 OF 003

    10.3% to RMB 6,230 (about USD 778).

    ¶6. (U) The average wages in the primary industry grew 10.33%
    to RMB 13,585 (USD 1,697).  Meanwhile, average wages in the
    secondary industry grew to RMB 18,013 (USD 2,250), up 6.91%.
    Finally, those in the tertiary industry grew 12.74% to RMB
    35,079 (USD 4,382).

    Unemployment, reemployment, and no employment
    ---------------------------------------------

    ¶7. (SBU) The unemployment rate in Xiamen for 2005 was 3.79%.
    This rate compares favorably to China's 4.2% rate and
    Fujian's 4.0%.  However, it compares less favorably to
    Guangzhou's 2.08%.  During the year, 224,000 laid-off
    workers were reemployed.  Of these, just 3,600, or 1.6%,
    were over the age of 40.  Xiamen also offered vocational
    training to 26,000 people.  Despite the unemployment rate,
    of the 920,000 jobs offered in 2005, 460,000, or half, went
    unfilled.  It appears that Xiamen's surplus labor is not of
    the kind that its booming economy needs.  Likely, those that
    have fallen by the wayside are mostly older workers that
    companies do not care to train, calculating that they will
    not be able to get much work out of them before they retire.

    Insurance coverage
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    ¶8. (U) 840,000, or over 60%, of Xiamen's workforce were
    covered by medical insurance; 780,000 (55.9%) by pension
    insurance; 680,000 (48.7%) by unemployment insurance;
    630,000 (45.2%) by industrial injury insurance; and 210,000
    (15.1%) by birth insurance.  RMB 3.6 billion (USD 450
    billion) worth of employment-related insurance premiums were
    collected in Xiamen during 2005.

    From China...
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    ¶9. (SBU) Like in China's other boomtowns, much of the labor
    behind Xiamen's economic success has come from poorer,
    inland provinces.  The main providers of labor are Jiangxi,
    Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi and Hunan.  Contrary to
    the case in Guangzhou and Shenzhen -- where many migrants
    come from other parts of Guangdong province -- the rest of
    Fujian was not mentioned as a significant source of labor.
    Anecdotally, however, it seems a notable proportion of
    Xiamen's service-sector professionals hail from Quanzhou,
    Fujian's third-most important city, after Xiamen and its
    capital Fuzhou.

    ... And Beyond
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    ¶10. (SBU) About 1,200 foreigners are part of Xiamen's
    workforce.  These include more than 70 Americans, whose
    principal places of employment are the local Dell and Kodak
    factories.  Meanwhile, with a small resident population,
    Singapore typically punches above its weight, holding key
    investments in the hotel and entertainment sectors.
    Additionally, some 2,000 people from Taiwan work in Xiamen,
    mostly in the electronics, rubber, food-and-beverage, and
    real estate industries.  Xiamen is also home to some 500
    Hong Kongers and Macanese.  Hong Kong interests own more
    than half the shares of TAECO, a leading aircraft-
    maintenance company that does work for giants such as Japan
    Airlines and Lufthansa, and which carried out the first
    conversion of an aircraft from passenger to cargo use in
    China.

    Jinmen: Xiamen's "golden door" to Taiwan?

    GUANGZHOU 00014846  003 OF 003

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    ¶11. (SBU) Ferries between Xiamen and the nearby island of
    Jinmen (which in Chinese means "golden door") are part of
    the "mini three links" between the Mainland and Taiwan-
    controlled islands of Jinmen (Kinmen or Quemoy) and Mazu
    (Matsu).  They are called "mini" to distinguish them from
    the regular "three links" (postal, transport and trade),
    which currently do not exist between the Mainland and Taiwan
    proper.  This has proved a boon to people from Taiwan that
    happen to live in Xiamen, by allowing them to travel back to
    Taiwan with much more ease than their counterparts in other
    Mainland locations, who must fly via an intermediate
    location, typically Hong Kong or Macau.  However, the ferry
    has not yet demonstrated its worth as a trade link.

    ¶12. (SBU) From Jinmen there are multiple daily flights to
    Taipei and other destinations in Taiwan, and many of these
    are scheduled to take in passengers coming in on the Xiamen
    ferries, which take less than two hours.  Airlines based in
    Taiwan have offices in Xiamen's ferry terminal.  Meanwhile,
    pilgrims from Taiwan use the Xiamen ferry during visits to
    worship the goddess Mazu (Matsu), protectress of fishermen
    and seafarers, at her home temple on Fujian's Meizhou
    Island.

    Comment: Not enough workers
    ---------------------------

    ¶13. (SBU) Like the rest of the developed coastal cities in
    Fujian and nearby Guangdong, Xiamen is suffering from an
    inadequate supply of labor for its hi-tech sector.  This is
    good news for skilled workers, as factories have been
    raising their wages to increase retention and attract new
    workers.  The labor shortage, ironic in a country with
    millions of unemployed and underemployed citizens, is very
    much due to a misallocation of educational resources.  While
    there has been a huge surge of students graduating from
    universities in the past few years, it appears that fewer
    are headed into technical fields.  While investors may think
    twice about investing in Xiamen if they fear they will be
    faced with insufficient skilled labor, this is a problem
    that China as a whole is facing.

    ¶14. (SBU) While not entirely good news for the city's
    economy, the wage increases serve to move the city's
    manufacturers up the value chain and ultimately bring about
    economic transfers to inland provinces from whence the
    migrants originate, in the form of remittances and savings
    taken back by returnees, as well as by the reduction of the
    population base to which the authorities back home must
    provide services.  Nonetheless, for now, and despite rising
    wages, Xiamen is competing with other cities also struggling
    to attract a limited number of skilled and hi-tech workers.

    DONG

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