Discussion Outline:
- Summary of article: shortage of workers in certain areas of China, mainly rural. As result, factories are filling factory jobs with students from vocational high schools.
- What is a vocational high school? What are examples of jobs you could train for there?
- How old are these students? (16-18)
- What does "assembly-line" job mean? Would you enjoy doing that kind of job? Why/why not?
- Why do the factories prefer to higher vocational students?
- Who owns these factories? (local Chinese companies and American ones, like Apple)
- How do students feel about these jobs? (some find it exhausting and hard; others like the money they can send to their families)
- How come certain areas of China don't have enough workers? (Answer: migration of youth to cities is a problem for rural areas; one-child policy means shortage of workers)
- One-child policy: each family is only allowed to have one child. What are implications of this? For job market? For families? (no aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.)
- Map: Where is China? Where is the Yantai in China? (answer: northeastern China)
- iPad: Pictures of Yantai @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantai
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