labor - Beijing, Shanghai raise minimum wages
Life in China's two leading cities is only expected to get marginally better as they raised the minimum wages.

Shanghai's new minimum wage rose from 635 yuan ($77) to 690 yuan ($83), Xinhua said. Wages in Beijing rose from 545 yuan ($66) to 580 yuan ($70).

Minimum wages in China are in general not enough to survive, while it would be hard for workers to complain when employers do not pay those wages.