14 DAY TRIAL // There once was a time when many thought China could never run out of workforce, and that workforce will always be cheaper than anywhere else. This has changed, or half of it has.
While China is still the poster country for cheap labor (manufacturers and brands wouldn't have so many operations there otherwise), said labor doesn't seem inexhaustible anymore.
In fact, factories established in China by certain notebook ODMs (original device manufacturers), particularly those from Taiwan, have been suffering from workforce shortages lately, or so the story goes.
The biggest shortages are in Shanghai, eastern China, as well as Chongqing and Chengdu Cities, western China. Manpower brokerage companies have been enlisted to recruit non-student workers, hoping to balance things out.
For our part, we shouldn't be worried about anything more than a tiny, negligible increase in the prices of whatever products those factories assemble. That much, at least, we can keep in mind in order to relax.