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The 1,500 workers at the Honda Lock factory in the southern province of Guangdong — the heart of China's industrial belt — have disrupted production of car locks and key sets for Japan's number two carmaker for a week over pay.

Nearly a quarter of Chinese employees have not had a raise in five years,Burberry, according to the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.

In response to the 11 suicides among its Chinese work force, Foxconn doubled the salaries of its south China staff. The company employs an estimated 400,000 people in the southern city of Shenzhen alone.

Labour rights activists say the millions of workers in China's factories — many of them migrants living far from home and family — are consistently faced with low pay, long hours and pressure to produce as much, as fast as possible.

He said during a visit to a construction site that the government should "work to resolve problems for migrant workers" such as marriage, housing and caring for their children as well as help them to adapt to city life.

So far, the work stoppages in China — which have received widespread coverage from the country's tightly-controlled state media — have mainly affected foreign-invested firms.

Honda offered a 24 percent pay rise to workers at its main parts factory.

BEIJING (AFP) – Striking workers at a Honda factory in China resumed their duties Tuesday as Premier Wen Jiabao called for better treatment of migrant workers, highlighting growing concern over a wave of labour unrest.

Limited work had resumed at the plant on Monday.

The premier also pledged to build more hospitals, schools and other public facilities in rural areas so migrant workers "would have fewer worries in their hometowns".

On Monday, Wen ventured into the fray, saying government officials and society should treat migrant workers "as their own children" and respect their contribution to the country's economic growth, Xinhua state news agency said.

A string of suicides among Chinese assembly line workers at Taiwanese IT giant Foxconn, three work stoppages at Honda plants and other labour actions have focused attention on conditions in the so-called "workshop of the world".

Dozens of people were hurt in clashes earlier this month at a Taiwan-funded rubber factory in the eastern province of Jiangsu when security forces tried to prevent about 2,000 striking workers from taking their protest to the streets.

"Operations at the plant have returned to normal," Sato said.

Most employees agreed to an undisclosed pay rise, said Hirotoshi Sato, a Japan-based company spokesman. For those still seeking a higher salary, he said the wholly-owned Honda subsidiary had "promised to continue talks".

The company has a production capacity of 650,000 vehicles a year in China.

Beijing has reacted to the labour unrest by launching a round of minimum wage hikes across the nation, reflecting concern among the country's Communist leadership that frustrated workers could trigger wider social turmoil.

Honda's labour woes in China have stalled production on the auto assembly lines run by its Chinese joint venture Guangqi Honda Automobile several times in recent weeks. All three strikes have now been resolved.