<正>CASS:Labor Shortage within Two Years A recent report released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences says that there is less surplus labor in rural China than previously estimated. It presages a labor shortage in China by the year 2009. Entitled “Growth and Structural Change of Employment in China,” the report predicts that this shortfall will raise the wages of rural laborers. It was generally understood that China had 100 to 150 million surplus laborers in the countryside. The report, however, gives a gure of 52.12 million aged under 40