Beijing - Christmas is normally a happy time for the millions of workers at vast factory complexes in China's southern manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong province. The workers can relax in the knowledge that the export orders they have just completed will bring them relative prosperity, at least for a few months.
But this year, Christmas will instead be an anxious time for many Guangdong workers as they seek new jobs before they use up their dwindling savings.
Jiang, a migrant worker from the south-western province of Sichuan, recently lost his job at the Hejun toy factory in Guangdong's Dongguan city.
"I worked at Hejun for three years as a painter," Jiang told Deutsche Presse-Agentur
