The job market across the Asia-Pacific region is evolving at lighting speed. About 43 percent of the interviewed employees in China said they would leave their current position in the following year due to bleak prospects for promotion, according to The Randstad World of Work Report 2012/13.

The report also said that about another 19 percent of the interviewees will quit their jobs because their salaries are not competitive enough.

Illustrating the challenges, wage income for urban households rose 13 percent in the first half of 2012, while average monthly income for migrant workers rose 14.9 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics said.