[Xin Meng] China must hike minimum wage

China’s government wants to strengthen domestic consumption, encourage family formation, increase fertility and achieve more balanced growth. But a major barrier is impeding progress on all these fronts: Chinese non-agricultural workers currently work some 2,500 hours per year, and hundreds of millions of blue-collar workers, largely rural-to-urban migrants, work nearly 3,000. That is nearly 60 hours per week — a schedule that leaves little time for consumption, relationships or family-building.

By The Korea Herald