Download the country plan 2010 for China here.

In 2009 FWF conducted a study that focused on wage levels in several cities that are key for China’s garment industry. According to the findings from this study, legal minimum wages for regular working hours were only about 60% of the amount that would be sufficient to meet workers’ basic needs. The report is available in Chinese and in English.

In May 2010, a meeting for auditors and stakeholders was held in Hong Kong. Download the report here.

In 2010, all FWF country studies for the FWF priority countries (Bangladesh, China, India and Turkey) will be updated and redrafted into a new, more readable format. Below are the current country studies (the list is currently being completed).

The country study for China (last updated October 2008) was last updated in October 2008 and takes into account the new labour contract law that was implemented in China on 1 January 2008.

In March 2009, FWF published a paper outlining the consequences of the global economic crisis on labour conditions the Chinese garment industry. This paper is called 'Weathering the storm' and can be downloaded here.

In September 2009, FWF published a paper on best practices in factory training in China. Content of this paper was taken from discussions during a seminar on factory training organised by FWF in Hong Kong in March 2009. This seminar was visited by fifteen NGOs and three academics from Hong Kong and mainland China. The report can be downloaded here.

A good resource for China is the report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on labour standards in China, which was published in May 2010.