In March 2025, China Labor Watch released a newsletter outlining labour rights abuses linked to Chinese companies worldwide, including impacts on Chinese migrant workers.

The newsletter alleges that, in March, ‘hundreds’ of Chinese workers at Jinjiang Alumina Integrated Industrial Park in Kalimantan, Indonesia, were reportedly subjected to months of wage theft. Construction at the project is being carried out by China Power Construction Group Nuclear Power Engineering (part of PowerChina); and the Industrial Park is being managed by Hangzhou Jinjiang Group.

The newsletter also describes separate labour rights violations impacting a Chinese migrant worker in Indonesia, who was employed to dismantle a steel plant, including hazardous working conditions and wage theft.

Further, the newsletter describes wider human rights issues linked to Chinese companies worldwide, including alleged protests over Chinese-funded infrastructure projects in Serbia; impacts on Chinese projects due to fighting between the Myanmar junta and Arakan Army; alleged safety violations linked to China Communications Construction Company in Uganda, leading to the firm being suspended; and a case of a Chinese firm, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, failing to comply to labour law by hiring undocumented workers in Malaysia (the company was fined USD23,600 for the violation).

In January 2026, the Business & Human Rights Centre invited PowerChina and Hangzhou Jinjiang Group to respond to the allegations. The companies did not respond.