No it isn't, Shanghai/China for a very long time has been seen as a place where most things are made. This means that obviously there are a lot more factories and that means more workers. Due to the amount of workers needed for these factories and the lower standards for human rights in China you won't earn very much working in them. In an average year working there you will earn around $13,000 AUD compared to the average $81,000 AUD you would earn in Australia. 

Harsher environments mean that workers have to work harder and longer. This is so crazy that you can work twice as hard in Shanghai and still earn less than you would in Australia. The reason your income is so low is because of the lower minimum wage in China. We think it's unfair that you can earn a minimum $3.50 AUD per hour compared to the minimum (average) $10.00 AUD per hour in Australia. These conditions are too harsh in our perspective but a lot of people have no choice. 

China's total population is 1,367,485,388 and women take up 48.6% of the population. In China they had a rule of the One Child Policy where families were only allowed to have one child. Sadly, couples would sometimes abort girls and would keep the boys because they were seen as stronger, more useful and they can keep the family line going. But because of this, sections of China have had problems where the ratio of boys to girls was upwards of 5 boys to 1 girl. They then got rid of the policy and added a Two Child Policy as of the 1st January, 2016. This impacts the workforce by having an over supply of people for jobs. 

In 2014 71% of China's 15 year olds were in forced labor. 64% of women were in the labor force compared to 78% of men. Women would earn at least 35% less than men that did the same work as them for the same amount of time. In 2010 China had a survey sent to the women and they said that 75% of them were being “dismissed” due to their marriage or childbirth. 

Comparatively in Australia women are free to have as many children they want so long as they give the children what they need to live so they are not taken away. Women aren't dismissed because of their marriage or childbirth and they aren't discriminated as much as they were before when women didn't have the right to vote. The wages in Australia are very good compared to some jobs in China, this allows us to be able to afford simple things such as a home, weekly groceries and much more. Therefore we feel that the workforce for women is not the same in China as it is in Australia. 

China's population consists of 1 367 485 388 people. This makes the country the most populated country in the world. 48.6% of the population in China are women, and 51.4% of China's population is male. China's gender scale is extremely unbalanced as at least 30 million men, who are at a marriageable age, die without marrying or having children. While on the other hand, Australia's population is 24 641 662, 49.8% of Australia's population is male and 50.2% is female.

This information suggests that not only will a large portion of China's population not have the chance to have children or be married. It will also suggest that China may decide to enforce another One Child Policy, where they have to keep the child whether the child is male of female. 

In China it's a common belief that the man works for the family and the woman stays home and cooks cleans etc. This means that most people in the Chinese work force are male. This also means that there is more men doing female stereotypical jobs (e.g male hairdressers for women, cleaning jobs, teaching) then there are women doing those jobs. This also tells us that women might not have much of a choice when it comes to choosing male stereotypical jobs such as, farming building etc.

Therefore, our group feels that the workforce in China is different to Australia. 

The work force in China is different because Chinese workers get paid much less than the average Australian. The average Australian earns more in 2 months than a Chinese worker does in a year. The average wage for a Chinese worker is ¥36,000 or $7,000 AUD a year. However, corruption in some companies affects the majority of wages with senior management often earning over a ¥1, 000, 000 a year in comparison to award salaries. This is mainly due to the lack of union organisation and the unions often side with managers rather than workers

The workforce in China is rapidly becoming more robotic. China's move to robotic workers is to secure their monopoly on the manufacturing industry. Replacing workers with robots cuts down on each company's expenditures so they are able to spend more on developing products. In Australia a smaller portion of the work force is needed for manufacturing related labour and therefore, there is less of a need to introduce a robot work force. 

Income Inequality in China

China's income inequality is among the highest in the world. The wealthier get richer and the poorer get poorer. The problem is the vast difference between opportunities between the classes. Children born into poor families will not have the money for a good education, and without a good education, it is hard to get a job that generates enough money to bring the family out of poverty. 

The exact reverse occurs in the upper class. The result is a wide gap between the the poor and the rich, that only gets wider. This is shown on the graph on the right. This is very different to Australia's economic system. The field of wealth is a lot broader, and while the difference between the very poor and the very wealthy is large, there is lots in between. This differs from China. As a conclusion, in relation to differences of income, the workforce in China differs to Australia's a lot. 

The workforce in Australia is very different to the workforce in China. While there are some similarities, there are many things that differ. One of these things is the income of workers in China and Australia. The average annual salary for an urban Chinese worker is CN¥73,385.50. That, in the Australian dollar, converts to AUD$14347.3. Compared to Australia's annual average salary of $78,832, this figure is very small. The workforce in Australia and China is therefore very different. 

We believe that the Chinese workforce is vastly different to Australia's workforce primarily in the field of wages. The average salary of an urban worker in China is ¥62,029 ($12,151) while the average wage per annum for a worker in Australia is $78,832. That's a $66,681 difference once converted to AUD. This is due to the availability of cheaper labour in the form of largely uneducated rural villages present in China and the amount of people who need a job and the corporations don't pay the workers as much because they don't lobby for higher pays.

The workforce in Australia and China is different because since most of the Chinese workforce rely on factory work to gain income, if robots start doing most of the factory work, it impacts China much more than Australia. 70.8% of people in China participate in labor work, so it would hugely impact the Chinese workforce, much more than the Australian workforce.