Outward Chinese Foreign Direct Investment and Labour Protections

Wanlin Ren joined the World Trade Institute (WTI) in January 2017 as a political science doctoral student within the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) project “BRICS globalization and labour protections in advanced and emerging economies”. The project duration is 4 years (2017–2020) under the lead of Professor Damian Raess. His research focuses on the impact of growing outflow Chinese foreign investment on labour issues in both the investment destinations and domestic markets. Specifically, his research focuses on how the recent fast growing outward Chinese FDI can affect the existing domestic labour institutions (ACFTU), labour conditions (wages, working hours, safety & health), and labour practices (collective rights, disputes).