Factory recruiters, displaying hand-written signs of the type of employee skill-set they seek, wait for interested workers at an outdoor job market in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China on 21 February, 2011. China's main export-oriented private manufacturing centers in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta are facing a labour shortage after the Lunar New Year holidays, as an increasing number of migrant workers in are staying put in the countryside due to rapid urbanization and economic development in China's interior, while those who continue to work in the traditional industrial belts such as Yiwu are demanding and receiving more wages and benefits.
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