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Despite the severe shortage of jobs in the Pearl River Delta, Shangdong-based Qilu Evening News says rural migrant workers are finding it hard to return to their hometowns for work. It says a large number of factory closures and layoffs have occurred in Pearl River Delta in the wake of the global financial crisis. But rural migrant workers rendered jobless are still not willing to return to the countryside, even though factories there are in dire need of manpower. The workers believe they can get better opportunities in the Pearl River Delta than in their hometowns, the same idea as college graduates who prefer a temporary job in big cities to a stable job in small or medium-sized towns. The article says the labourers should not be classed as "migrants". They live and work in the Pearl River Delta and have accepted the pearl jewelry region as their home, which explains why they don't leave. The Gemological Institute of America recently announced that Catrina Clifton of Kingman, Arizona, and Davina Romansky of Rochester, New York, have been selected as this year's Richard T. Liddicoat Scholarship recipients. Clifton, a sales manager at Luchia's Jewelry Gallery, wants to become "the most well-known custom jewelry designer in pearl necklace Mohave County." She has completed the Diamond programs and is eager to get started on the Colored Stones program to earn her G.G. diploma. Romansky, a bench jeweler at pearl necklace Jared's Jewelers (Sterling Corp.) in Rochester and a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, will receive a scholarship for the G.G. program. Romansky has studied with several Italian and American metal masters and pearl ringjewelry craftsman and has had her pieces on exhibit at several U.S. venues.
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