Doing business in China is about adaptability. Today, with an emerging middle class and a better educated labor force, a Human Resources strategy built on understanding of local labor conditions becomes essential to succeeding in China. As the Chinese society continues to grow in sophistication, both the labor market and the labor law are developing at a pace hardly anticipated even five years ago. On the one hand, foreign invested enterprises often find themselves hard pressed to strike a balance between complying with the broadly phrased labor laws and interacting with nuanced labor market realities in different locations; on the other hand, an increasing number of Chinese multinational enterprises find employees’ global mobility and international labor compliance a new challenge.