Doesn't shock me at all.
Different culture and different cost of living = different work ethic and different workplace standards.
The alternative would be to go back to the family farm and eke out a hand to mouth existence living well below the poverty line.
Foreign tech capital investment into China is one of the best stimulants for that countries rapidly emerging middle class and I very much hope it continues.
Here in Australia, IR and workplace laws are very much in favour of the employee (and it is easy to develop a complacent attitude to something you are used to), so it is easy to be shocked when you see workplace standards that are "worlds apart" from ours.
Try setting up an assembly line/manufacturing plant for a mass produced low tech consumer product like that in Australia and you would be insolvent in 12 months. The average employee wage and minimum workplace conditions would make it unviable.
