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©ChinaFotoPress/MAXPPP - Workers have flocked to southern China for plentiful manufacturing jobs in industries that offer better pay than farm work. Now, they are finding themselves in an unusual jam: lining up for increasingly scarce employment. On a recent Saturday, Dongguan was rife with trademarks of a thriving southern China city, with smog-choked skies and cars honking in traffic. But in the midst of the bustling scene some 2,000 people, many of them newly out of work, were trying to land jobs at an outdoor employment fair in front of the city\'s railway station. Most were victims of a severe slowdown in China\'s toy, textile and plastics industries. \'It\'s very difficult to find jobs these days; people worry a lot about the future,\' said Li Wuhui, 28 years old, who was fired a few weeks ago from his job as a sales manager at a factory that makes capacitors. As the global slowdown weakens demand for China\'s exports, signs of weakness are spreading. Bankruptcies and unemployment are growing throughout southern China, one of the country\'s main manufacturing zones.NANJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 6, 2008:(CHINA OUT) Migrant workers wait for the tain to home in Nanjing, east China\'s Jiangsu province on November 6, 2008. Workers have flocked to southern China for plentiful manufacturing jobs in industries that offer better pay than farm work. Now, they are finding themselves in an unusual jam: lining up for increasingly scarce employment. (Photo by An Fu/ChinaFotoPress)395636774 (KEYSTONE/MAXPPP/ChinaFotoPress )