China's Leaders Manage Class Conflict Carefully: Guangdong has grown by more than 10 percent annually for the past decade. But its factory workers, mostly migrants from the interior, earn no more today than they did in 1993, several Chinese studies have found. The average wage of $50 to $70 a month also buys less today than it did in the early 1990's, meaning workers are losing ground even as China enjoys one of the longest and most robust expansions in modern history. I would not cast judgement before then, but I would be curious to read the studies that this article refers to. --This afternoon I went through about 100 backlogged e-mails from the Oriental List (a great China travel e-mail listserve), and the prize link was a page with pictures of a southern Chinese wedding.