China is in the midst of its biggest ever modernization of labor laws and labor market regulation, starting to come into force on January 1, 2008. The labor reforms grant the individual worker more employment protection rights enforceable by law and mean more legal certainty for foreign employers. The reforms are getting underway while China is facing an increasing lack of skilled workers and a rapidly ageing workforce, threatening to be the biggest dangers in securing long-term economic growth. These are the findings of the first-ever joint European-Chinese research study on the Chinese labor market by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) and the Adecco Institute (London), done in cooperation with the University of Warwick (UK). Click on links on the left to download the research study, to download press releases, speeches and photographs or to watch the press conference from December 5, 2007, in Zurich,