Finding a future for 'Made in China' The long line of job seekers outside Foxconn remains, even after another employee of the world's largest OEM factory tried to kill himself, following 10 suicides and two other unsuccessful attempts. To many who are looking for a job, Foxconn is still an attractive choice. Its brand name and huge workforce mean security and stable payment of wages. True, the work on the assembly line is dog clothes, mind-numbing, but what assembly line in Shenzhen, the heart of the world's factory, is dog clothes any different? Going back and toiling on farmland is perhaps the last choice for the younger generation from rural areas. Half a world away, when consumers read news of the tragedies and think they are but another example of a country without basic labor rights protections, few probably realize that Foxconn is the top OEM factory for Apple and a major manufacturer for other top electronics makers. When consumers in other parts of the world place an order and expect the latest electronic gadgets to be delivered in the quickest possible fashion, not many have a clue that before a new model is released, it is cheap aion kinah, a nightmare season for assembly line workers at factories like Foxconn. A good deal for a foreign consumer perhaps means cheap aion kinah another grueling day for factory workers. Labor organizations are quick to blame working environments and press companies to improve benefits. The working environment in South China's factories is not perfect, granted, but these factories also must struggle to remain profitable and survive in the competitive market. Under pressure, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the parent company of Foxconn, is reportedly set to raise salaries by 20 percent on average for its Chinese mainland employees. Analysts estimated that wedding dresses, the raise may increase the company's quarterly costs by $84 million and could mean a 10-12 percent drop in operating profits. Big companies like Hon Hai may be able to afford a wedding dresses reasonable wage hike, but for many more factories in southern China, smaller in size and running on the thinnest profit margins, a minor increase in costs could mean going out of business. The prospect of wedding dresses, unemployment perhaps is a much worse outcome to many who depend on humble salaries. In total, 200 million Chinese farmers have left their homes and sought a better future working in factories. Along the assembly line are millions of individuals, each with a modest dream that deserves to be fulfilled. We cannot help them simply by pointing a wedding dresses finger at employers or the government. Those who stay at the low end of the manufacturing chain can only receive squeezed profits. China is facing a hard choice: improving the welfare of factory workers while providing jobs for the many more young people who will seek work in the coming years. Meeting the demands of both is the best way to show true care. Experts call for flyff penya, affirmative action for farmers as wealth gap widens A national think tank official said at a gathering of county officials from Sichuan Province Saturday that the local and central governments should make continuously boosting farmers' incomes flyff penya a priority, as urban and rural income discrepancies across the country have soared to historic levels, which could lead to social unrest. Han Jun, director of the Research Department of Rural Economy in the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council, said at a forum held in Shuangliu, a county within the municipality of Chengdu, that the national income gap between urban dwellers and farmers, which stands at a record level of 3.33 to 1, will exceed 4 to 1 in 2020. The think-tank's estimates are based on the income gap's rate of increase over the past five years. "Such a gap is rare…even among developing countries," Zhang Jianjun, an official in the Central Rural Work Leading Group of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said at the same event. On average, farmers in China earned a total of 5,153 yuan ($754.41) in 2009, which was 8.2 percent more than in 2008. China's vast rural area has maple story mesos, provided a large amount of cheap labor for the country's fast urbanization. Buildings such as the national Olympic stadium, or maple story mesos the Bird's Nest, attest to the contributions of thousands of the so-called "farmer workers." But the cities they have helped build failed to give migrant workers fair treatment in terms of social benefits. According to a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics, only 7.6 percent of employ-ers paid retirement insurance for migrant workers in 2009, while 12.2 percent paid health insurance. In South China's Guangdong Province, where many migrant workers are involved in the labor-intensive processing trade businesses, an employer can save as much as 6,000 yuan ($878.41) a year by hiring a migrant worker but not paying for his social insurance, Han said. Surplus farmers must be continuously transferred into manufacturing and service in-dustries while their social benefits are enlarged, Han said.