Human Resources

1. Find a suitable staff in CND

A company's success very much depends on its employees. Finding suitable staff in Changzhou is quite easy，especially in CND. According to Changzhou Statistical Yearbook published in 2005, the population of CND is 402,071 and the employable work force is 267,309. As a matter a fact, CND is adjacent to the downtown area of Changzhou city, the work force in Changzhou city is commuting with that in CND. Therefore, the work force of Changzhou City of 1,462,888 is also available for CND. Changzhou also has a large group of immigrant workforce of around 1 million.
The development of manufacturing industry has cultivated plenty of engineers, technicians & skilled operators. And the advanced education system could also bring up large amount of new graduates for office staff and backup management. Besides, labor force in Changzhou is relatively stable especially the operation labor talents, as the abundant resources offer ample supplies of various types of talents being brought in pro-business culture, in good faith and professional ethics. At the same time, this well developed region also attracts immigrants keeping swarming to this city aimed at seeking better opportunity.

2. Flexible Models of Recruitment

Job Fair
There are four job fairs weekly in Changzhou, of which two are held in CND and the others are held in downtown area. Quite similar to the western Job Centers, the job hunter register and their information stored in a database, the employer can also search the database while they need.
Head Hunting
For certain positions such as executive managers or specialists in relation to your specific industrial activities, companies will obtain the right person through head-hunting companies rather than the official fairs.
Other Methods
Besides regular job fairs & head hunting, enterprises can also easily get other channels to take recruitment including daily –updated online HR service of Changzhou (www.czrc.com.cn) & CND (www.czxbrc.com), newspaper advertisement, and TV rolling-up advertising, etc.
Terms of employment
A contract of employment setting out the terms and conditions of the employer-employee relationship is usually drawn up in writing. In principle, the contract can be formulated in Chinese. The Labour Law and Labour Contract Law are the dominant legal document government for labour relation ship in China, and apply for all the companies in PRC, including FIE.

There is a legally fixed form for a contract of employment. It is highly advisable to define certain points, such as:
　　Area of activity and general description of tasks
　　Date of contract inception and, in the case of fixed-term contracts, duration of the agreement
　　Daily and/or weekly working hours
　　Probationary period (no more than 6 months)
　　Salary payment & its terms
　　Penalty for breach of contract

3. Education system
As education is the important basis of the city’s long-term development, Changzhou attaches great importance to it. Especially in recent 30 years, the education system has been thriving in the city which provides more than 45 thousand labor forces annually with high technical to the society. The basic education information of Changzhou is described in following tables:

Changzhou College Town（Science & Education Town）
The Changzhou College Town is the venue of institutions of high learning, the first of its kind in China featuring on-hand training and cultivation of pragmatic skills to satisfy the modern development needs with due considerations in advance with relation to the curriculum. These include:

4.Social Benefit
In contrast to some other industrialized countries, the core social security in China is financed collectively by means of a process of redistribution. The current costs (for pensioners, sick people or those in need of nursing care, and unemployed people) are paid directly from contributions by employees and employers.
Generally speaking, social security contributions are shared by employer and employee. Social security contributions are made up of: