"China saw a dramatic increase in wage arrears protests in run up to New Year", 2 Mar 2016

The extent of China’s chronic wage arrears problem became clear in the run up to the Lunar New Year as workers all over the country staged protests in a bid to get paid before the 8 February holiday.

Between 1 December and 8 February, CLB’s Strike Map recorded 1,050 strikes and collective protests by workers, about 90 percent of which were related to the non-payment of wages.The highest concentration of unrest was in Guangdong, Henan, Shandong and Hebei.

The construction industry...accounted for about 55 percent of all protests...,Manufacturing accounted for 23 percent ,... and mining 5.6 percent.

...The Ministry reported in November last year that there had been 11,007 “incidents of migrant worker wage arrears” in the first three quarters of 2015, an increase of 34 percent over the same period in 2014.