By Michelle GUO Meicheng
The girl selling low-priced clothes in the market had a smile on her face
Zhuhai – January 31 – IJS – Global.com– Many migrant workers who came to the South China to earn their living in Zhuhai, stayed and spent a warm Spring festival in the city far away from hometown, and still had confidence of their future under the influence of financial tsunami.
Accoring to local media Guangdong News Net, about a total of 46,000 migrant workers stayed in Jinwan District of Zhuhai to spend the Lunar New Year. Many migrant workers chose not to go back hometown, maily due to the consideration of crowded Spring Trafic. Under the influence of the financial tsunami, some factory dismissed a lot of employees, and that also make the trafic situation more serious. “It is difficult to get a train ticket to go home, even the Stand Ticket.”said Miss Zhang Yanhong, a migrant worker of Zhuhai Liansi electronics factory.
During Spring Festival, local government and corporations arranged some activities for the migrant workers to celebrate Spring Festival. According to Zhang Yanhong, Liansi electronics factory, half of whose 2,000 migrants workers stayed in Spring Festival, arranged activities such as TV shows, films and dumplings competition on the first three days of Lunar New Year.
Some migrant workers were able to get their faimily members together to spend Lunar New Year. Zhang Guihua, who was an employee of Canon Zhuhai corporation, spent the Spring Festival with her husband Meng Gang and her sister Zhang Xiaohua in Zhuhai together. Meng Gang was who worked as an security worker and Zhang Xiaohua had a job in an electronics factory in Shenzhen. All of them were from Henan province to work in South China. Although not going back hometown in north China, they still enjoy their festive family gatherings.
“My job did have been influenced by the financial tsunami. The company have fewer orders so that we do not have to produce so many products as before, so that we do not have extra work and of course have less chance to earn more money. ”said Zhang Guihua when talking about her work. She had a thankful feeling of her employer who did not dismiss any migrant workers except they chose to leave by themthelves. She and the other migrant workers were offered work training classes by company and a wage rise about RMB100 (US$14.62).
Zhang Guihua was satisfied of her current life. She said: “The economic depression is a big environment rather than a single phenomenon in my work place. If wages does not reduce,I am willing to maintain the status quo. I am content with my life.” She had a sweet smile on her face when slightly touching her bulged belly, “I am going to give birth to my baby in this year, Year of the Ox, I hope my baby can be health and strong as the Ox.”
Zhang Xiaohua, sister of Zhang Guihua said that most of her friends who working in Shenzhen or Zhuhai as skilled migrant workers are confidence of their future. According to Xiaohua, the ones who were dismissed were willing to go home in Spring Festival first, the ones who had savings or willing to develop in South China would stay and looking for a job, and the ones had no money and no job had to go home.
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