Nursing market regulation needed in Dragon baby boom

Guangzhou (CNS) -- In the face of the Dragon baby boom this year, the nursing market in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, is being squeezed by a dearth of seasoned professionals and general parental fussiness.

Experienced nurses have been fully booked until the end of the year, at great expense given the shortage, and new hands that come at relatively lower fees are being passed over by the choosy families anticipating newborns over the next 12 months.

This complicated nexus of price, supply and demand needs prompt regulation, according to the head of the municipal human resource market service center. The authority came up with a rating system matching skills and payments for duties common to different levels of certified nurses, then appointed the most competent to train the novices, in a bid to increase the overall ability of the human resource pool to absorb the greater demand.

Yet the market imbalance shows no sign of being straightened out in the short term, since reaching a solution depends on the collaboration of various parties.