China is expected to see its worst labor shortages in the Pearl River Delta in the next three months largely because there has been a steady increase in the demand for workers in the manufacturing and services industries, a report has shown.

Chinese employers are expected to accelerate their pace of employee recruitment in the second quarter of the year, according to a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. That study was released on Monday by ManpowerGroup China, which operates in the employment services industry.

The survey interviewed more than 65,000 employers around the world, including 4,304 employers on the Chinese mainland, in an attempt to measure their intentions to increase or decrease the size of their workforces in January.