🇨🇳What does China require?

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China's minimum wage is governed by the Regulation on Minimum Wages issued by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: each provincial, autonomous-region, or municipal government's labor department drafts the figure together with the same-level trade union federation and enterprise association, and it takes effect once the higher government approves it. The regulation requires a review at least once every two years. Factors to weigh include the minimum living costs of local workers and their dependents, the urban consumer price index, workers' individual contributions to social insurance and the housing fund, average wages, and the local level of economic development and employment. The system runs on two tracks: a monthly rate for full-time employees and an hourly rate for part-time ones. Within a single province the rate is usually further split into two to four tiers by how developed each city is. For the standard effective in 2026: Shanghai runs a single province-wide figure of ¥2,740, the country's highest; Shaanxi splits into three tiers — ¥2,376, ¥2,250, and ¥2,140 a month, with corresponding hourly part-time rates of ¥23, ¥21.7, and ¥20.7; Jiangsu's three tiers run from ¥2,660 down to ¥2,180. There is no single national figure — there often isn't even a single figure within one province.