How China sees Britain: 'Sloth-inducing' labour laws and lavish welfare system fuels economic problems
By JASON GROVES
Last updated at 10:46 AM on 20th October 2011


Jin Liqun, chairman of China's vast sovereign wealth fund, said people in the West needed to ¿work a bit harder¿ if they wanted to escape the recession
Britain's ‘sloth-inducing’ labour laws and lavish welfare system are at the root of the country’s economic malaise, a senior member of the Chinese government warned last night.
Jin Liqun, chairman of the country’s vast sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, said people in the West needed to ‘work a bit harder’ if they wanted to escape the recession.
In a tough message to EU leaders Mr Jin said Westerners were cossetted by the welfare state.
He said the debt crisis crippling Europe could be solved in the long term only by slashing welfare payments and ending the restrictive labour laws which have made European workers increasingly uncompetitive on world markets.
Mr Jin told Channel Four News: ‘The root cause of trouble is the overburdened welfare system, built up since the Second World War in Europe – the sloth- inducing, indolence-inducing labour laws.
'People need to work a bit harder, they need to work a bit longer, and they should be more innovative. We [the Chinese] work like crazy.’
The average working week in China is 47 hours, compared with roughly 40 hours in the UK and just 30 in some EU countries. But Chinese workers earn just a tenth of what Europeans are paid.

Long hours: Workers sewing Mango jeans in garment factory in city of Shenzhen. Chinese work an average of 47 hours a week, compared with 40 in the UK
Patrick Belser, economist at the International Labour Organisation, said the lack of a welfare state in China contributed to the culture of long hours, with people trying to build up savings to see them through hard times.
But he said: ‘Chinese people aspire to better conditions of work.’
Mr Jin also warned that there was no guarantee China would come to the rescue of Europe’s ailing banks.

Cheap: Workers assemble cars at the Shenlong Auto plant in Wuhan, central China. They earn, on average, a tenth of what a European worker can expect


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Iniciado por Coronel Quaritch

Que se vayan al infierno los Chinos estos. Parásitos de mierda, están donde están gracias a los "Vagos" Occidentales (ellos si que son unos vagos de mierda que solo saben copiar y crear productos mierdosos a base de explotar a campesinos).

Iniciado por Da Grappla

No haberse llevado las fábricas a China a ponerlas a medias con su gobierno y dándoles el know how.

P.D: y también es verdad que en el UK (tú que vives allá lo sabrás mejor) se ha dado demasiado ese tipo de gente que vive de la beneficencia como las coñas de Li'l Britain.