European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hew flys of work by Jim Abrams associated Presse very Day. They gather by the dozens sometimes hundreds near a Highway overpass in Beijing in Hopes of ending a Job in a so called woofers Paradise Wonio practically no one is Ever fired 1 Iii Lake  said a 20-year-old woman irom dirt Pooi a Hui province Muf Llod against the cold by several sweaters and a Greatcoat As she wailed Tor Job otters at the Enol tibial Street labor Market she is among millions of chinese some Down and out. Others just restless who Are dulling Cyc. Dihe tinges of traditional socialist work patterns some Nome to these informal labor markets others Lind jobs m Small factories which arts springing up in former Rice paddies As Parl of a drive to absorb the nation s surplus lat mag population Many arc. Moving into the nation s mushrooming service Industry or taking advantage of China s new system of contracted labor at Togo Lac a. They have Given China s Economy a new mobility and Vil Ahly As Well As introducing new problems of using unemployment and a breakdown in social Consols the a Hui woman said she worded for two years in Bei ing As a waitress resumed Homo Lor a while and now was Back Lor another try. A 37.yeat-old Handyman from Hunan province said he had finished a work contract that gave him a bed and about $1 20 a Day to said if he can s find suitable work he planned to return to the wife and two children to left behind on his Arm. Such roving would have been impossible a decade ago. When chinese were assigned jobs Tor Lite and were Seldom allowed la leave their Village. But Dong Xiaoping s Market oriented reforms begun in 19t9. Are gradually turning the chinese worker Loose and in doing so changing the face of the land since 979, China Wilh 1 billion people has created 70 million new Urban jobs almost half in collectively or privately Lun businesses ii is commuted to ind my 30 Molion More jobs in the 1966 90 period and coming up with ways to handle 15 million  workers on the government payroll there arc nearly ?0 million private businessmen Many operating one person sir Elsido clothing and Lood stalls that Olteia More Vanclay and belter Quality it Al higher prices than stale run shops in the Countryside. 80 million out of a local population of 800 million have Lound work at Rural enterprises Small la Cloncs turning out machine parts. Textiles and handicraft by 1995. 100 million will be Oil i no Larm these Rural industries have eased the Strauis of cd Cess farming population and kept people trom flooding into Urban areas but the government has also loosened its controls on inc flow of people Between country and cily. Region and legion a million Farmers irom poor areas of Norl Riwesel China have migrated id other areas to Lind work Tho lamed Pola la Palace in Lhasa Tirol. Was renovated by Rural workers f Orn a Hui More than 1,200 Miles to the cast every Day More than 1 million transients 51 Ream Mlo Beijing which has a fined population of 9 8 million some come looting Lor work on construction projects in restaurants or As housemaids others Are  transporters and businessmen who Supply the Mikols and Slock up on the Lac so consumer goods residence aids Are Sull needed to obtain housing and Gram Ninn cards m the Ernes but some transients slay Lor Yuan i h the help of friends and Emp oyers some end up ail out ohs it is inevitable mat some workers will Wail Lor pcs Allor their contracts  said Yang Guohua. An o a Cial of the labor and personal ministry unemployment said the economic daily earlier this year May play a positive role in a socialist Economy by enc our a gig the originality and enthusiasm of workers Yang said the current unemployment rate about 2 percent of the Urban work Force was appropriate Lor China at this time he Sard re was Down from almost 4 percent in the tale 1970s, when millions of Young people sent to the Countryside during the 1966-76 cultural revolution thronged Back into he cities once inviolable 0b Security has also been challenged by the my reduction last year of a contract labor system where workers and heir slate run employers determine length and terms of employment almost 6 million workers now have contracts that allow them to change jobs when their Lerm is up and give their Bosses the right to fire them pm Hawk to & Page 14 the stars and stripes