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Tianjin in 13-pct minimum wage rise
Last Updated(Beijing Time):2012-03-06 18:11

China's northern port city of Tianjin will raise its minimum wage in April, joining a new round of wage hikes nationwide in a bid to attract workers and buffer rising living costs, it was announced on Tuesday.

Minimum monthly salaries for full-time workers will be raised by 12.9 percent to 1,310 yuan (208 U.S. dollars) starting next month, according to a statement from the Tianjin municipal bureau of human resources and social security.

The minimum pay for part-time jobs will rise by the same percentage, to 13.1 yuan per hour, it said.

Severe labor shortages, sporadic workers' strikes and rising living costs in cities have prompted wage hikes throughout China over the past two years.

China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose 5.4 percent year-on-year in 2011, driven by an 11.8-percent surge in food prices, official data showed.

Twenty-four provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities raised their minimum monthly wages by an average of 22 percent last year, according to Yin Weimin, minister of human resources and social security.

Beijing and Shenzhen led another round of minimum wage hikes this year in the hope of narrowing the income gap and also of wooing migrant workers from inland regions to help ease labor shortages.

Beijing raised its minimum monthly wage by 8.6 percent to 1,260 yuan starting January, while Shenzhen hiked the compulsory monthly wage by 13.6 percent to 1,500 yuan, the country's highest, starting February.

Many migrants are now choosing to work at factories closer to their homes, rather than in faraway coastal regions. This has left factories and services sectors in the east short of laborers, pushing local governments to roll out compulsory wage hikes to help compete for workers.

China as a whole aims to increase the nationwide minimum monthly wage by 13 percent annually before 2015, according to a central government plan announced last month.

Source:Xinhua 
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