Even after the recent Hukou reforms, permanent residency for immigrants is nonexistant (less than 20k in the past 2 decades). It feels like such a huge own-goal in the current historical moment to miss out on attracting migrants, especially the now unemployed technical experts and scientists in deindustrializing nations. Have they perhaps been infuenced by the current wave of fascist hysteria in the G7? (By which I mean: the CPC proactively stopping such a movement from forming in China?) Are they high on their own supply about being a "civilizational state"? Are they scared? Are they CHUDS?
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It genuinely doesn't make economic sense at this point. For example, West Europe would honestly be a sterile crater at this point without immigrants from the past 20 years due to population decline.
The best reason I could come up with is that they fear backlash from the precariously employed youths and xenophobic elders.
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Historical inertia is probably a large factor here. It would be somewhat strange to switch from population control to population bolstering policies in under 2 decades.
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Vietnam is somewhat similar to China in governance, but is more leinient with immigration than even Europe.
What would really be the point of increasing the import of foreign labour into the country? Like what's the sctual economic rationale?
Mass importing educated third world labor creates brain drain in the 3rd world countries, and if you're importing uneducated labor, they're going to be exploited by the private sector while being displaced by rapid automation.
As for importing labour from first world countries, first world wages are generally still quite high compared to the rest of the world so there won't be too many first world foreigners willing to emigrate to China.
That's not to mention the language barrier.
I was looking into teaching there for a long time, and now I'm pretty lost since teaching jobs have no path to permanent residency, and that kind of benefit is locked behind managerial positions in STEM mainly :(
Yeah, if you do want to live and work in China that is absolutely possible, and increasing numbers of people are doing it, especially since the salaries are also getting higher and the standard of living is very good, but you should always be aware that for 99.99% of people it will always be on a temporary basis.
Oof. Well that kinda sucks. I don't know that much about the policy and can only comment on the general need for labor