Letter from the Editors

Letter from the Editors

Amid China's economic slowdown and rising unemployment, coupled with the transition from traditional industries to new digital models, flexible employment through platforms like food delivery has surged.

Editor’s Note

Happy year of the Snake! As we enter 2025, China’s economy faces persistent challenges. The much-discussed “lackluster recovery” of 2024 has offered little optimism, with GDP growth projected to hover between 4% and 5% this year.

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Letter from the Editors

In the last month of 2024, migrant workers continued to be owed wages while countless protests stemmed from factory relocations. Wage arrears cases remained the majority of incidents we monitored on the calls-for-help map. In December, sanitation workers in many places went on strike due to unpaid wages.

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