【明報專訊】OVER the past three years, China's economy has been turning down, and the most important stabiliser has been employment stability. In the period between the end of last year and last March, the authorities in charge of such matters kept saying bullish things about the employment situation on the mainland. They even produced good-looking figures in response to doubts expressed. However, when lianghui took place last March, Heilongjiang coalminers to whom wages were owed openly protested against improper remarks Governor Lu Hao had made. They tore open the mainland's wound of instability and even latent risks of employment.