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BEIJING - People from overseas hoping to buy a home in China will no longer be granted medium- or long-term mortgages, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Thursday.

With the second incidence of Chinese workers being abducted in South Africa in the first month of 2012, the safety of overseas workers has attracted widespread attention in China.

A new trend in employment, mainly characterized by short work duration and high job mobility, has appeared among Chinese migrant workers, especially among the new generation of migrant workers born in the 1980s, according to an investigation report released by a research team from Department of Sociology under Tsinghua University and gzhong

SHANGHAI / GUANGZHOU - Companies are having to introduce better pay incentives as increasing number of employees are failing to return to work after Spring Festival.

BEIJING / SHANGHAI - China is luring more foreign job seekers as its economy shines amid the global slowdown.

BEIJING - To avoid delays in the distribution of wages to construction workers, labor experts are calling for improved employee relations and clarity in complex contracting mechanisms.

Beijing will extend social security coverage to 1.5 million migrant workers in the city in 2012, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security said on Jan. 11.

BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Civil Affairs has worked out a guideline to give the country's migrant workers greater access to urban community-based public services and help them better adapt to life in the city.