Human Resources and Personnel Issues in Chinese Sourcing Transactions

Originally published 28 July 2009

Keywords: outsourcing, China, employment law

For many years China has been developing into one of the world's leading manufacturers of goods. More recently, it has become intent on becoming a leading global provider of services.¹ While labor conditions in manufacturing have raised some significant issues of international social concern,² buyers of Chinese-sourced products have had relatively little occasion to focus on basic human resources and personnel issues associated with their suppliers' employees. As China seeks to attract international businesses to source services from China, however, human resources and personnel issues associated with the supplier employees will take on a new immediacy for buyers of Chinese services.