China no longer has a surplus of underemployed workers in the countryside willing to move elsewhere for rock bottom wages, but it does still have a large and inefficient agricultural workforce. Their continued migration into manufacturing and services will hold down the pace at which wages rise. While pay will not be as low as it once was, labour will remain cheap.
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