受經濟影響 我國年最低工資標準增幅下降

A slower increase in salaries in 2016 across China confirms the country is experiencing an economic slowdown, but that a drop in salaries is unlikely, experts said.

2016年，中國的最低工資標準增長放緩，這充分體現了我國正經歷經濟下滑的低迷期，但專家表示，目前工資下滑還是不太可能的。

Compared to 2015 salary guidelines, those for 2016 have grown at a slower rate in most of the 19 provinces and regions that have so far published their annual guidelines for firms.

與2015年的最低工資標準相比，2016年19個省和地區的企業公開的工資數據呈緩慢增長趨勢。

Shanghai has reduced its wage increase to 8 percent from last year's 10 percent.

上海市企業的工資增長幅度由去年的10%下降到了8%。

Salary guidelines are issued by local governments as a reference to help firms decide how much they should increase their employees' salaries. They are based on Labor market conditions and economic growth, among other factors.

最低工資標準是由政府制定的、用來作爲企業決定員工工資漲幅的參考數據。其影響因素包括勞工市場條件、經濟發展現狀以及其他因素。

"Since China's labor contract law was adopted in 2007, wage increases have surpassed economic growth," said Wang Jiangsong, a professor at the China Institute of Industrial Relations, told the Global Times. He said the slowdown reflects China's economic downturn.

中國勞動關係學院教授王江鬆在接受《環球時報》採訪時表示：“自從中國2007年通過了勞動合同法後，工資增長幅度就大大超過了經濟增長幅度。”他表示，工資增長的放緩是中國經濟下滑的表現。

However, Zhang Chewei, deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Population and Labor Economics, said the slower increase will not result in a decline in wages any time soon, the Ningxia Daily reported.

但據《寧夏日報》報道，中國社會科學院人口與勞動經濟研究所副所長張車偉表示，在任何時期，工資增長放緩都不會立馬導致工資下降。

Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province has not released salary guidelines in years. Wang said the region has been experiencing a recession, therefore, wages have not increased.

位於我國東北的黑龍江省近幾年都沒有公佈最低工資標準，王江鬆教授對此表示，這個地區一直都處於經濟衰退期，因此工資漲幅幾乎爲零。