An excellent article about Shenzen, well worth your time. It even mentions Wal-Mart:
In Shenzhen, factory wages averaging $85 a month are up 50 percent from a decade ago and well above pay in surrounding areas. But demand so outstrips supply - even with millions of migrant jobseekers - that 200,000 positions are unfilled....But the city's main attraction, to migrants as well as foreign business people, is its tens of thousands of factories. Proof of the city's key role in the world supply chain: Wal-Mart's global purchasing headquarters is in Shenzhen.
Posted by Kevin on September, 19 2005 at 10:51 AM
